Psalms 104:29
He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Convertit aquas eorum in sanguinem, et occidit pisces eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μετέστρεψεν τὰ ὕδατα αὐτῶν εἰς αἷμα, καὶ ἀπέκτεινεν τοὺς ἰχθύας αὐτῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 105:29
- הָפַ֣ךְ אֶת מֵימֵיהֶ֣ם לְדָ֑ם וַ֝יָּ֗מֶת אֶת דְּגָתָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Blood. In reality, so that the fishes were killed. (St. Athanasius)
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 CV
20. “He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish” ( ver. 29 ). “He made their land frogs, yea, even in the king’s chambers” ( ver. 30 ): as if he were to say, He turned their land into frogs. For there was so great a multitude of frogs, that this might well be said by hyperbole.