Psalms 87:13
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid cognoscentur in tenebris mirabilia tua ? et justitia tua in terra oblivionis ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ γνωσθήσεται ἐν τῷ σκότει τὰ θαυμάσιά σου, καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη σου ἐν γῇ ἐπιλελησμένῃ;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 88:13
- הֲיִוָּדַ֣ע בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ פִּלְאֶ֑ךָ וְ֝צִדְקָתְךָ֗ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ נְשִׁיָּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Of, &c. Septuagint, "forgotten land." Securos latices & longa oblivia potant. (Virgil, Æneid vi.) (Calmet)
When dead, I shall not be able to sound forth thy praises before men: much less shall those do it, who are confined to the regions of darkness. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXVIII
11. “Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?” ( ver. 12 ), the dark answers to the land of forgetfulness: for the unbelieving are meant by the dark, as the Apostle saith, “For ye were sometimes darkness;” and the land where all things are forgotten, is the man who has forgotten God; for the unbelieving soul can arrive at darkness so intense, “that the fool saith in his heart, There is no God.” Thus the meaning of the whole passage may thus be drawn out in its connection: “Lord, I have called upon Thee,” amid My sufferings; “all day I have stretched forth my hands unto Thee” ( ver. 13 ). I have never ceased to stretch forth My works to glorify Thee. …