Psalms 105:6
We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Peccavimus cum patribus nostris : injuste egimus ; iniquitatem fecimus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἡμάρτομεν μετὰ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, ἠνομήσαμεν, ἠδικήσαμεν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:6
- חָטָ֥אנוּ עִם אֲבוֹתֵ֗ינוּ הֶעֱוִ֥ינוּ הִרְשָֽׁעְנוּ
Haydock's commentary
Sinned. Here commences the confession of sins. The just man first accuses himself, Proverbs xviii. 17. (Calmet)
The same prayer is repeated, Judith vii. 19., and Daniel ix. 5., as it might be applicable to the captives. (Berthier)
We have injured ourselves, our neighbours, and our God. (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
6. But let us hear what they next confess: “we have sinned with our fathers: we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly” ( ver. 6 ). What meaneth “with our fathers”?…“Our fathers,” he saith, “regarded not Thy wonders in Egypt” ( ver. 7 ); and many other things also, he doth relate of their sins. Or is, “we have sinned with our fathers,” to be understood as meaning, we have sinned like our fathers, that is, by imitating their sins? If it be so, it should be supported by some example of this mode of expression: which did not occur to me when I sought on this occasion an instance of any one saying that he had sinned, or done anything, with another, whom he had imitated by a similar act after a long interval of time. …