SEV Biblia, Chapter 77:4
Tenías los párpados de mis ojos abiertos ; estaba yo quebrantado, y no hablaba.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 76:4
Verse 4. Thou holdest mine eyes waking ] Literally, thou keepest the watches of mine eyes-my grief is so great that I cannot sleep. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. ] This shows an increase of sorrow and anguish. At first he felt his misery, and called aloud. He receives more light, sees and feels his deep wretchedness, and then his words are swallowed by excessive distress. His woes are too big for utterance.
"Small troubles are loquacious; the great are dumb." Curae leves loquuntur; ingentes stupent.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-10 - Days of trouble must be days of prayer; when God seems to have withdrawn from us, we must seek him till we find him. In the day of his trouble the psalmist did not seek for the diversion of business of amusement, but he sought God, and his favor and grace. Those that ar under trouble of mind, must pray it away. He pored upon the trouble the methods that should have relieved him did but increase his grief When he remembered God, it was only the Divine justice and wrath. Hi spirit was overwhelmed, and sank under the load. But let not the remembrance of the comforts we have lost, make us unthankful for thos that are left. Particularly he called to remembrance the comforts with which he supported himself in former sorrows. Here is the language of sorrowful, deserted soul, walking in darkness; a common case even amon those that fear the Lord, Isa 50:10. Nothing wounds and pierces lik the thought of God's being angry. God's own people, in a cloudy an dark day, may be tempted to make wrong conclusions about their spiritual state, and that of God's kingdom in the world. But we mus not give way to such fears. Let faith answer them from the Scripture The troubled fountain will work itself clear again; and the recollection of former times of joyful experience often raises a hope tending to relief. Doubts and fears proceed from the want and weaknes of faith. Despondency and distrust under affliction, are too often the infirmities of believers, and, as such, are to be thought upon by u with sorrow and shame. When, unbelief is working in us, we must thu suppress its risings.
Original Hebrew
אחזת 270 שׁמרות 8109 עיני 5869 נפעמתי 6470 ולא 3808 אדבר׃ 1696
