Psalms 105:24
And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et pro nihilo habuerunt terram desiderabilem ; non crediderunt verbo ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξουδένωσαν γῆν ἐπιθυμητήν, καὶ οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν τῷ λόγῳ αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:24
- וַֽ֭יִּמְאֲסוּ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חֶמְדָּ֑ה לֹֽא הֶ֝אֱמִ֗ינוּ לִדְבָרֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Word. Which Moses, Josue, &c., announced, Numbers xiii., and xii. 29. (Calmet)
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
20. “Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land” ( ver. 24 ). But had they seen it? How then could they scorn that which they had not seen, except as the following words explain, “and believed not in His words.” Indeed, unless that land which was styled the land that flowed with milk and honey, signified something great, through which, as by a visible token, He was leading those who understood His wondrous works to invisible grace and the kingdom of heaven, they could not be blamed for scorning that land, whose temporal kingdom we also ought to esteem as nothing, that we may love that Jerusalem which is free, the mother of us all, which is in heaven, and truly to be desired. …
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 6:14
How then is it that we shall not suffer the same things? Let us not commit the same acts, and then shall we not suffer the same punishment. They murmured, they were ungrateful; let us therefore not cherish these passions. How was it that they fell all of them? “They despised the pleasant land.” ( Ps. cvi. 24 .) “How ‘despised’ it? Surely they prized it highly.” By becoming indolent and cowardly, and not choosing to undergo any labors to obtain it. Let not us then “despise” Heaven! This is what is meant by “despising.” Again, among us also has fruit been brought, fruit from Heaven, not the cluster of grapes borne upon the staff ( Num. xiii. 23 .), but the “earnest of the Spirit” ( 2 Cor. i. 22 .), “the citizenship which is in Heaven” ( Philip. iii. 20 .), which Paul and the whole company of the Apostles, those marvelous husbandmen, have taught us. …