Psalms 104:14
He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non reliquit hominem nocere eis : et corripuit pro eis reges.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐκ ἀφῆκεν ἄνθρωπον ἀδικῆσαι αὐτούς, καὶ ἤλεγξεν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν βασιλεῖς
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 105:14
- לֹֽא הִנִּ֣יחַ אָדָ֣ם לְעָשְׁקָ֑ם וַיּ֖וֹכַח עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם מְלָכִֽים
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CV
8. “What time as they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people” ( ver. 13 ). This is a repetition of what he had said, “from one nation to another.” “He suffered no man to do them harm: but reproved even kings for their sakes” ( ver. 14 ). “Touch not,” He said, “Mine anointed, and do My prophets no harm” ( ver. 15 ). He declareth the words of God chiding or reproving kings, that they might not harm the holy fathers, while they were small in number, very few, and they strangers in the land of Canaan. Although these words be not read in the books of that history, yet they are to be understood as either secretly spoken, as God speaketh in the hearts of men by unseen and true visions, or even as announced through an Angel. …