Psalms 108:10
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nutantes transferantur filii ejus et mendicent, et ejiciantur de habitationibus suis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σαλευόμενοι μεταναστήτωσαν οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπαιτησάτωσαν, ἐκβληθήτωσαν ἐκ τῶν οἰκοπέδων αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 109:10
- וְנ֤וֹעַ יָנ֣וּעוּ בָנָ֣יו וְשִׁאֵ֑לוּ וְ֝דָרְשׁ֗וּ מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Out. Hebrew, "seek." St. Jerome, "be sought after," which implies that the are rejected. (Houbigant)
The being reduced to beg, is terrible to one who has been brought up in a better manner.
Dwellings. Septuagint (Menochius) and St. Jerome, "ruins." The Jews were forbidden to weep over the ruins of Jerusalem, and are become vagabonds. (Calmet)
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 CIX
12. “Let the extortioner search out all his substance, and let the strangers spoil his labour” ( ver. 10 ). “Let there be no man to help him” ( ver. 11 ): that is, to guard his posterity; wherefore followeth, “nor to have compassion on his fatherless children”