Psalm 30:9–10
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30:9“What14 profit is there in taking my life,15
in my descending into the Pit?16
Can the dust of the grave17 praise you?
Can it declare your loyalty?18
30:10Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me!
O Lord, deliver me!”19
Footnotes
- 14 The following two verses (vv. 9–10) contain the prayer (or an excerpt of the prayer) that the psalmist offered to the Lord during his crisis.
- 15 Heb “What profit [is there] in my blood?” “Blood” here represents his life.
- 16 The Hebrew term שָׁחַת (shakhat, “pit”) is often used as a title for Sheol (see Pss 16:10; 49:9; 55:24; 103:4).
- 17 Heb “dust.” The words “of the grave” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
- 18 The rhetorical questions anticipate the answer, “Of course not!” According to the OT, those who descend into the realm of death/Sheol are cut off from God’s mighty deeds and from the worshiping covenant community that experiences divine intervention (Pss 6:5; 88:10–12; Isa 38:18). In his effort to elicit a positive divine response, the psalmist reminds God that he will receive no praise or glory if he allows the psalmist to die. Dead men do not praise God!
- 19 Heb “be a helper to me.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
“What profit is there in my death,
if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!
O Lord, be my helper!”
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“What is gained if I am silenced,
if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it proclaim your faithfulness?
Hear, Lord, and be merciful to me;
Lord, be my help.”
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
“What gain is there in my death,
if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it proclaim your truth?
Lord, listen and be gracious to me;
Lord, be my helper.”
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
NLTNew Living Translation
“What will you gain if I die,
if I sink into the grave?
Can my dust praise you?
Can it tell of your faithfulness?
Hear me, Lord, and have mercy on me.
Help me, O Lord.”
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
LEBThe Lexham English Bible
“What gain is there in my death,
in my going down into the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
“O Yahweh, hear and be gracious to me.
O Yahweh, be my helper.”
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me:
Lord, be thou my helper.
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