Psalms 105:38
And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et effuderunt sanguinem innocentem, sanguinem filiorum suorum et filiarum suarum, quas sacrificaverunt sculptilibus Chanaan. Et infecta est terra in sanguinibus,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξέχεαν αἷμα ἀθῷον, αἷμα υἱῶν αὐτῶν καὶ θυγατέρων· ἔθυσαν τοῖς γλυπτοῖς Χανάαν· καὶ ἐφονοκτονήθη ἡ γῆ ἐν τοῖς αἵμασιν,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:38
- וַיִּֽשְׁפְּכ֨וּ דָ֪ם נָקִ֡י דַּם בְּנֵ֘יהֶ֤ם וּֽבְנוֹתֵיהֶ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר זִ֭בְּחוּ לַעֲצַבֵּ֣י כְנָ֑עַן וַתֶּחֱנַ֥ף הָ֝אָ֗רֶץ בַּדָּמִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Chanaan. These unnatural sacrifices were perhaps practised under the judges, or at least under the kings. (Worthington)
Some pretend that the children were only made to pass over or between fires. But this is refuted by facts, Leviticus xviii. 21., and 4 Kings xvi. 3., and Jeremias vii. 30
Polluted. Infecta: ephonoktanethe is used by Septuagint, in this sense, though it signifies also, "was slain;" interfecta, as most Latin Bibles and Fathers read, before the correction of Clement VIII. The former expression is more natural and conformable to the Hebrew. (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
28. “Yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils” ( ver. 37 ); “and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan” ( ver. 38 ). That history doth not relate that they offered their sons and daughters to devils and idols; but neither can that Psalm lie, nor the Prophets, who assert this in many passages of their rebukes. But the literature of the Gentiles is not silent respecting this custom of theirs. …