Psalms 103:22
The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens.
Open Psalms 103:22 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ortus est sol, et congregati sunt, et in cubilibus suis collocabuntur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνέτειλεν ὁ ἥλιος καὶ συναχθήσονται, καὶ ἐν ταῖς μάνδραις αὐτῶν κοιτασθήσονται·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 104:22
- תִּזְרַ֣ח הַ֭שֶּׁמֶשׁ יֵאָסֵפ֑וּן וְאֶל מְ֝עוֹנֹתָ֗ם יִרְבָּצֽוּן
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CIV
29. “The Sun hath arisen, and they get them away together, and lay them down in their dens” ( ver. 22 ). More and more as the Sun riseth, so that Christ is recognised by the round world, and glorified therein, do the lion’s whelps get them away together; those devils recede from the persecution of the Church, who instigated men to persecute the house of God, by working in the sons of unbelief. Now that none of them dareth persecute the Church, “the Sun hath arisen, and they get them away together.” And where are they? “And they lay them down in their dens.” Their dens are the hearts of the unbelieving. How many carry lions crouching in their hearts? They burst not forth thence, they make no assault upon the pilgrim Jerusalem. Wherefore do they not so? Because the Sun is already risen, and is shining over the whole world.