Psalms 88:12
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Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
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For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.