Psalms 106:3
From the rising and the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- a solis ortu, et occasu, ab aquilone, et mari.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐκ τῶν χωρῶν συνήγαγεν αὐτούς, ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν καὶ δυσμῶν καὶ βορρᾶ καὶ θαλάσσης.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 107:3
- וּֽמֵאֲרָצ֗וֹת קִ֫בְּצָ֥ם מִמִּזְרָ֥ח וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב מִצָּפ֥וֹן וּמִיָּֽם
Haydock's commentary
Sea. Hebrew miyam, for which we should read imim "the right," denoting the south. (Calmet)
But the sea, or ocean, is properly used in the same sense. (Berthier)
The Ammonites, Philistines, Syrians, and Idumeans, from these four quarters, often reduced the Israelites to servitude, under the judges. (Houbigant)
From all parts, the Jews of the ten tribes returned in the reigns of Darius and Alexander. (Calmet, Diss.)
But the texts which are applied to this event speak rather of the conversion of the Gentiles, which the prophet has here in view. (Berthier)
None are excluded from the benefits of this redemption, but by their own fault. (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 CVII
3. “Let them say who are redeemed of the Lord, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of their enemies” ( ver. 2 ). Redeemed indeed it seems was also the people of Israel from the land of Egypt, from the hand of slavery, from fruitless labours, from miry works; yet let us see whether those who say these things, are they who were freed by the Lord from Egypt. It is not so. But who are they? “Those whom He redeemed.” Still one might take it also of them, as redeemed from the hand of their enemies, that is, of the Egyptians. Let them be expressed exactly who they are, for whom this Psalm would be sung. “He gathered them from the lands;” these might still be the lands of Egypt, for there are many lands even in one province. Let him speak openly. “From the east and the west, from the north and the sea” ( ver. 3 ). Now then we understand these redeemed, in the whole circle of the earth. …