Psalms 108:12
May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non sit illi adjutor, nec sit qui misereatur pupillis ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ ὑπαρξάτω αὐτῷ ἀντιλήμπτωρ, μηδὲ γενηθήτω οἰκτίρμων τοῖς ὀρφανοῖς αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 109:12
- אַל יְהִי ל֭וֹ מֹשֵׁ֣ךְ חָ֑סֶד וְֽאַל יְהִ֥י ח֝וֹנֵ֗ן לִיתוֹמָֽיו
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CIX
13. But as even orphans may, without one to help them, and without a guardian, nevertheless increase amid trouble and want, and preserve their race by descent; he next saith, “Let his posterity be destroyed; and in the next generation let his name be clean put out” ( ver. 12 ): that is, let what hath been generated by him generate no more, and quickly pass away.