Psalms 106:41
And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et adjuvit pauperem de inopia, et posuit sicut oves familias.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐβοήθησεν πένητι ἐκ πτωχίας, καὶ ἔθετο ὡς πρόβατα πατριάς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 107:41
- וַיְשַׂגֵּ֣ב אֶבְי֣וֹן מֵע֑וֹנִי וַיָּ֥שֶׂם כַּ֝צֹּ֗אן מִשְׁפָּחֽוֹת
Haydock's commentary
Sheep. The Gentiles took the place of the obstinate Jews. (St. Augustine)
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
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
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. …