Psalms 106:39
Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et pauci facti sunt et vexati sunt, a tribulatione malorum et dolore.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὠλιγώθησαν καὶ ἐκακώθησαν ἀπὸ θλίψεως κακῶν καὶ ὀδύνης.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 107:39
- וַיִּמְעֲט֥וּ וַיָּשֹׁ֑חוּ מֵעֹ֖צֶר רָעָ֣ה וְיָגֽוֹן
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVII
9. “And they became few, and were vexed” ( ver. 39 ). Whence this? From athwart? Nay, from within. For that they should “become few,” “They went out from us, but they were not of us.” But therefore he speaketh as of these, of whom he spake before, that they may be discerned with understanding; because he speaketh as if of the same, because of the sacraments they have in common. For they belong to the people of God, though not by the virtue, yet surely by the appearance of piety: for concerning them we have heard the Apostle, “In the last times there shall come grievous times, for there shall be men lovers of themselves.” The first evil is, “lovers of themselves;” that is, as being pleased with themselves. Would that they were not pleasing to themselves, and were pleasing to God: would that they would cry out in their difficulties, and be freed from their distresses. …