Psalms 105:29
And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et irritaverunt eum in adinventionibus suis, et multiplicata est in eis ruina.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ παρώξυναν αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπληθύνθη ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἡ πτῶσις.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:29
- וַ֭יַּכְעִיסוּ בְּמַֽעַלְלֵיהֶ֑ם וַתִּפְרָץ בָּ֝֗ם מַגֵּפָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Multiplied. All who had murmured perished, or this may relate to the 24,000, Numbers xxv. 9. (Calmet)
Ezechiel xx. 23. St. Paul (1 Corinthians x. 8.) speaks of those 23,000 slain by the Levites. The Hebrew which has only 3,000 must be inaccurate. Temporal chastisements were intended to prefigure those which are eternal, as the Jews knew that such rewards and punishments were to be considered (Matthew xix. 16.; Berthier) as the spiritual sense of the law. (Grotius, Jur. ii. 20, 39.)
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
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
23. “They were initiated also unto Baalpeor;” that is, were consecrated to the Gentile idol; “and ate the offerings of the dead” ( ver. 28 ). “Thus they provoked Him to anger with their own inventions; and destruction was multiplied among them” ( ver. 29 ). As if He had deferred the lifting up of His hand which was to cast them down in the desert, and to cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands; as the Apostle saith: “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowl edge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.” “‘Destruction,’ therefore, ‘was multiplied among them,’ when they were heavily punished for their heavy sins.”