Psalms 105:43
Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sæpe liberavit eos. Ipsi autem exacerbaverunt eum in consilio suo, et humiliati sunt in iniquitatibus suis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πλεονάκις ἐρρύσατο αὐτούς, αὐτοὶ δὲ παρεπίκραναν ἐν τῇ βουλῇ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐταπεινώθησαν ἐν ταῖς ἀνομίαις αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:43
- פְּעָמִ֥ים רַבּ֗וֹת יַצִּ֫ילֵ֥ם וְ֭הֵמָּה יַמְר֣וּ בַעֲצָתָ֑ם וַ֝יָּמֹ֗כּוּ בַּעֲוֺנָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVI
30. “Insomuch that He abhorred His own inheritance; and He gave them over into the hand of the heathen: and they that hated them were lords over them” ( ver. 41 ): “and their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought low under their hands” ( ver. 42 ). Since he hath called them the inheritance of God, it is clear that He abhorred them, and gave them over into their enemies’ hands, not in order to their perdition, but for their discipline. Lastly, he saith, “Many a time did He deliver them.” “But they provoked Him with their own counsels” ( ver. 43 ). This is what he said above, “They did not abide His counsel.” Now a man’s counsel is pernicious to himself, when he seeketh those things which are his own only, not those which are God’s. …