Psalms 108:29
Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Induantur qui detrahunt mihi pudore, et operiantur sicut diploide confusione sua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐνδυσάσθωσαν οἱ ἐνδιαβάλλοντές με ἐντροπήν, καὶ περιβαλλέσθωσαν αἰσχύνην ὡσεὶ διπλοίδα αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 109:29
- יִלְבְּשׁ֣וּ שׂוֹטְנַ֣י כְּלִמָּ֑ה וְיַעֲט֖וּ כַמְעִ֣יל בָּשְׁתָּֽם
Haydock's commentary
Cloak. Diplois, means the outward robe. Hebrew mehil. (Haydock) (Galatians iii. 13.)
"The cross of Jesus Christ shall be the glory of believers, and the confusion of infidels." (St. Leo, ser. xviii. de pas.)
A salutary and inward shame may be of great advantage. (Haydock)
Christ prays that his enemies may feel such a sorrow, and be converted. (St. Jerome)
"He speaks not against, but in favour of, the Jews." (St. Augustine) (Calmet)
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
29. “As for me, I will confess greatly unto the Lord with my mouth” ( ver. 29 ).…Is He said to “praise among the multitude” because He is with His Church here even unto the end of the world; so that we may understand by “among the multitude,” that He is honoured by this very multitude? For he is said to be in the midst, unto whom the chief honour is paid. But if the heart is, as it were, that which is mid-most of a man, no better construction can be put on this passage than this, I will praise Him in the hearts of many. For Christ dwelleth through faith in our hearts; and therefore he saith, “with my mouth,” that is, with the mouth of my body, which is the Church.