Psalms 128:4
The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dominus justus concidit cervices peccatorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Κύριος δίκαιος συνέκοψεν αὐχένα ἁμαρτωλῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 129:4
- יְהוָ֥ה צַדִּ֑יק קִ֝צֵּ֗ץ עֲב֣וֹת רְשָׁעִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Necks. Hebrew, "collars," (Theodotion) "snares," (Symmachus) or "bands," with which they have oppressed us. Cyrus abandoned the Babylonians to be slaves of those Persians who had taken them, and made them till the land, &c. (Zenoph. vii.) (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 CXXIX
7. “The righteous Lord shall hew the necks of the sinners” ( ver. 4 ).…Which of us doth not fix his eyes upon the earth, like the Publican, and say, “Lord, be merciful unto me a sinner”? If therefore all are sinners, and none is found without sin; all must fear the sword that hangs above their neck, because “the righteous Lord shall hew the necks of the sinners.” I do not imagine, my brethren, of all sinners; but in the member which He striketh, He marks what sinners He striketh. …