Psalms 104:36
And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et percussit omne primogenitum in terra eorum, primitias omnis laboris eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπάταξεν πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἐκ τῆς γῆς αὐτῶν, ἀπαρχὴν παντὸς πόνου αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 105:36
- וַיַּ֣ךְ כָּל בְּכ֣וֹר בְּאַרְצָ֑ם רֵ֝אשִׁ֗ית לְכָל אוֹנָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Labour. This explains the first part of the verse, Genesis xlix. 3., and Psalm lxxvii. 51. (Haydock)
The fifth and sixth plagues are not specified. (Worthington)
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
26. “He smote every first-born in their land: even the first-fruits of all their strength” ( ver. 36 ). This is the last plague, excepting the death in the Red Sea. “The first-fruits of all their strength,” I imagine to be an expression derived from the first-born of cattle. These plagues are ten in number, but they are not all mentioned, nor in the same order in which they are there read to have happened. For praise-giving is free from the law which bindeth one who is relating or composing a history. And since the Holy Spirit is the Author and Dictator, through the Prophet, of this praise; by the very same authority with which He guided him who wrote that history, he doth both mention some thing to have taken place which is not there read, and passeth over what is there read.