Comentario citado sobre Isaías 24:16

“Rose” [2:1]. [Midrash] Shohar Tov writes: The sages said that the earth recited this verse. That is to say, I, the earth, have a deposit. All the deceased people are hidden and concealed in me. That is why I am beloved by the Holy One and when the Holy One will desire these dead people I will return them all in the days of the Messiah. And I, the earth, will again be fresh, strong, and beautiful as a rose and will sing praises, as the verse says, “from the ends of the earth we hear singing” [Isaiah, 24:16].¹⁴Midrash Shohar Tov, 1.20; Yalkut Shimoni, Song of Songs, Remez, 985.

זמיר עריצים The song of the terrible ones.⁷A. V., The branch of the terrible ones. It is the same as שאון זרים; comp. זמירות songs (24:16).

When G'd asked Cain where his brother was, He did so to find out if Cain was aware of his sin. When Cain answered that he did not know Abel's whereabouts, G'd told him that he should have made it his business to know. To this Cain replied: "Have You made me his keeper?" He did not confess his evil deed. He either thought that G'd would not punish him for an indirect act, a cause, or he thought that G'd did not exercise this kind of supervision over man. When G'd persisted by asking: "What did you do?" He informed Cain that his wicked deed was the cause that the earth had swallowed Abel. The words: "the voice of your brother Abel's blood cries out to me from the earth," mean that Abel thought it was the earth that killed him, not Cain. This is why he complained to G'd. G'd cursed Cain even more severely than the earth because he was the cause of what the earth had done. Henceforth the earth was no longer permitted to open its mouth (Sanhedrin 37). Isaiah 24,16 describes the songs of the earth as originating in its "wings," i.e. its periphery. Had the earth not been forbidden to open its mouth, no doubt its songs would have originated from its mouth. When the earth was to swallow all the Egyptians who had drowned, it was worried about opening its mouth until G'd gave it special permission as alluded to in Exodus 15,12: "You inclined Your right hand and the earth swallowed them." Perhaps this is the problem the sages referred to when they claimed that Cain killed Abel with a stone. As a result Abel suffered many injuries which would account for the Torah writing דמי אחיך צועקים instead of דם אחיך צועק, i.e. the plural for the word blood. Death would not have been due to any single injury as in the case of someone who is slain by the sword. We already explained that the fact that Abel suffered multiple injuries cleansed him of any sins he might have committed prior to his death.