Psalms 105:13
They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsels.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cito fecerunt ; obliti sunt operum ejus : et non sustinuerunt consilium ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐτάχυναν, ἐπελάθοντο τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ, οὐχ ὑπέμειναν τὴν βουλὴν αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:13
- מִֽ֭הֲרוּ שָׁכְח֣וּ מַעֲשָׂ֑יו לֹֽא חִ֝כּ֗וּ לַעֲצָתֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Counsel. Three days after the passage of the sea, God laid injunctions upon them at Mara, which they would not observe, Exodus xv. 22. (Calmet)
They coveted unnecessary things. (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 CVI
11. “They acted hastily: they forgot His works” ( ver. 13 ): other copies read more intelligibly, “They hastened, they forgot His works, and would not abide His counsel.” For they ought to have thought, that so great works of God towards themselves were not without a purpose, but that they invited them to some endless happiness, which was to be waited for with patience; but they hastened to make themselves happy with temporal things, which give no man true happiness, because they do not quench insatiable longing: for “whosoever,” saith our Lord, “shall drink of this water, shall thirst again.”