Psalms 108:11
May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Scrutetur fœnerator omnem substantiam ejus, et diripiant alieni labores ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξεραυνησάτω δανιστὴς πάντα ὅσα ὑπάρχει αὐτῷ· διαρπασάτωσαν ἀλλότριοι πάντας τοὺς πόνους αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 109:11
- יְנַקֵּ֣שׁ נ֭וֹשֶׁה לְכָל אֲשֶׁר ל֑וֹ וְיָבֹ֖זּוּ זָרִ֣ים יְגִיעֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Usurer. The Romans forced the miserable Jews to pay taxes, and Domitian banished them from Rome, to live in a wood, where their furniture was only a basket and some hay, and their wives came to beg.
Cophino fænoque relicto
Arcanam Judæa tremens mendicat in aurem. (Juvenal, Sat. xi. 540.) (Calmet)
At the last siege, some of their bodies were ripped open, to discover the gold which they might have swallowed. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 15.) See Deuteronomy xxiv. 10. (Menochius)
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”