Psalms 103:10
Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui emittis fontes in convallibus ; inter medium montium pertransibunt aquæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ ἀποστέλλων πηγὰς ἐν φάραγξιν, ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ὀρέων διελεύσονται ὕδατα·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 104:10
- הַֽמְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ מַ֭עְיָנִים בַּנְּחָלִ֑ים בֵּ֥ין הָ֝רִ֗ים יְהַלֵּכֽוּן
Haydock's commentary
Pass, to supply the wants of all creatures. Springs and rain afford the necessary moisture.
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 CIV
9. Hear. “Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over, neither shall they turn again to cover the earth” ( ver. 9 ). What then, because now the bitterest waves have received a measure, that we must be allowed to preach such things even with freedom; because they have had their due limit assigned, because they cannot pass over the bound that is set, nor shall they return to cover the earth; what is doing in the earth itself? What workings take place therein, now that the sea hath left it bare? Although at its beach slight waves do make their noise, although Pagans still murmur round; the sound of the shores I hear, a deluge I dread not. What then; what is doing in the earth? “Who sendeth out springs in the little valleys” ( ver. 10 ). “Thou sendest out,” he saith, “springs in the little valleys.” Ye know what little valleys are, lower places among the lands. …