Psalms 108:28
They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Maledicent illi, et tu benedices : qui insurgunt in me confundantur ; servus autem tuus lætabitur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καταράσονται αὐτοί, καὶ σὺ εὐλογήσεις· οἱ ἐπανιστανόμενοί μοι αἰσχυνθήτωσαν, ὁ δὲ δοῦλός σου εὐφρανθήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 109:28
- יְקַֽלְלוּ הֵמָּה֮ וְאַתָּ֪ה תְבָ֫רֵ֥ךְ קָ֤מוּ וַיֵּבֹ֗שׁוּ וְֽעַבְדְּךָ֥ יִשְׂמָֽח
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CIX
28. “Let my slanderers be clothed with shame” ( ver. 28 ): that is, let it shame them to have slandered me. But this may also be understood as a blessing, in that they are amended. “And let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a double cloak;” for diplois is a double cloak; that is, let them be confounded both within and without: both before God and before men.
St Ambrose Epistle LXIII: To the Church at Vercellæ
103. Do you then forgive injuries done to you that you may be children of Jacob. Be not provoked as was Esau. Imitate holy David, who as a good master left us what we should follow, saying: “Instead of loving me they spake against me, but I prayed,” and when he was reviled, he prayed. Prayer is a good shield, wherewith contumely is kept away, cursing is repelled and often is turned back on those who utter it, so that they are wounded by their own weapons. “Let them curse,” he says, “but bless Thou.” The curse of man is to be sought for, which procures the blessing of the Lord.