...Devoid of this organ, or of sight, the light would be of no avail : it would be turned into darkness. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ? * The gift of sight alone, precious though it be, without some other gift equally important, and...

...names which the Rabbins apply to that region ; and they deduce it particularly from Ps. Ixxxviii. 11, 'Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in (o&K&fon) destruction f [HADES.] ABANA, or AMANA (ilHS or njDg ; the former being the kcthib or Hebrew...

...Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead ? shall the dead arise and praise thee ? Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave ? or thy faithfulness in...and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ? But unto thee have I cried, O Lord ; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Lord, why castest...

...Wilt thou show inonders to the dead ? Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in destruction...and thy righteousness in the land of forgetful-ness ? When he seems to answer these questions in the negative, by Ps. CXv. i 7. saying that the dead praise...

...the grave and death, as a poetical equivalent. See Prov. xv. 11. Job. xxvi. 6. xxviii. 22. 13 (12.) Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness 1 These are varied metaphorical descriptions of the state of death, considered negatively as the privation...

...again ? Shall the dead arise, and praise thee ? Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave ? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forge tfulness ? All that are in their graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth : they that...

...raise to life, and give praise to thee? Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy, and thy truth in destruction ? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark : and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness ? But I, 0 Lord, have cried to thee : and in the morning my prayer...

...dead? Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave, and thy faithfulness in destruction ? Shall thy wonders...and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?" (Ps. Ixxxviii.) The same tone prevails in the prayer of the pious king Hezekiah, when he was recovered...

...thy loving-kindness be declared in the (kever) grave ? or thy faithfulness (avadoun,) in a place of destruction ? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark...and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ?" David evidently expected that he himself, his soul, would go into the grave, and that when there,...

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