Psalms 117:11
Surrounding me they compassed me about: and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Circumdantes circumdederunt me, et in nomine Domini, quia ultus sum in eos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κυκλώσαντες ἐκύκλωσάν με, καὶ τῷ ὀνόματι Κυρίου ἠμυνάμην αὐτούς·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 118:11
- סַבּ֥וּנִי גַם סְבָב֑וּנִי בְּשֵׁ֥ם יְ֝הוָ֗ה כִּ֣י אֲמִילַֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXVIII
5. “All nations compassed me round about, but in the Name of the Lord have I taken vengeance on them” ( ver. 10 ). “They kept me in on every side, they kept me in, I say, on every side; but in the Name of the Lord have I taken vengeance on them” ( ver. 11 ). He signifieth the toils and the victory of the Church; but, as if the question were asked how she could have overcome so great evils, he look eth back to the example, and declareth what she had first suffered in her Head, by adding what followeth, “They kept me in on every side:” and the words, “All nations,” are with reason not repeated here, because this was the act of the Jews alone. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it 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).