SEV Biblia, Chapter 88:12
¿Será conocida en las tinieblas tu maravilla, y tu justicia en la tierra del olvido?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 87:12
Verse 12. The land of forgetfulness? ] The place of separate spirits, or the invisible world. The heathens had some notion of this state. They feigned a river in the invisible world, called Lethe, lhqh, which signifies oblivion, and that those who drank of it remembered no more any thing relative to their former state.- Animae, quibus altera fato Corpora debentur, lethaei ad fluminis undam Securos latices et longa oblivia potant. VIRG. AEn. vi. 713. To all those souls who round the river wait New mortal bodies are decreed by fate; To yon dark stream the gliding ghosts repair, And quaff deep draughts of long oblivion there.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-18 - Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, an lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favour in comfort, nor return them in praise. The psalmist resolved to continue in prayer, and the more so, because deliverance did not com speedily. Though our prayers are not soon answered, yet we must no give over praying. The greater our troubles, the more earnest an serious we should be in prayer. Nothing grieves a child of God so muc as losing sight of him; nor is there any thing he so much dreads a God's casting off his soul. If the sun be clouded, that darkens the earth; but if the sun should leave the earth, what a dungeon would it be! Even those designed for God's favours, may for a time suffer his terrors. See how deep those terrors wounded the psalmist. If friend are put far from us by providences, or death, we have reason to loo upon it as affliction. Such was the calamitous state of a good man. But the pleas here used were peculiarly suited to Christ. And we are not to think that the holy Jesus suffered for us only at Gethsemane and of Calvary. His whole life was labour and sorrow; he was afflicted a never man was, from his youth up. He was prepared for that death of which he tasted through life. No man could share in the sufferings by which other men were to be redeemed. All forsook him, and fled Oftentimes, blessed Jesus, do we forsake thee; but do not forsake us, take not thy Holy Spirit from us __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
היודע 3045 בחשׁך 2822 פלאך 6382 וצדקתך 6666 בארץ 776 נשׁיה׃ 5388
