“Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”
The abandonment is explicitly stated: "Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?" The final rhetorical questions express that God's works cannot be known or proclaimed if the supplicant dies. Death is portrayed as total separation from God's action and memory.
Church Fathers on Psalms 88:12
1. The Title of this eighty-seventh Psalm contains a fresh subject for enquiry: the words occurring here, “for Melech to respond,” being nowhere else found. We have already given our opinion on the meaning of the titles Psalmus Cantici and Canticum Psalmi: and the words, “sons of Core,” are constantly repeated, and have often been explained: so also “to the end;” but what comes next in this title is peculiar. For “Melech” we may translate into Latin “for the chorus,” for…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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