Psalms 128:5
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- αἰσχυνθήτωσαν καὶ ἀποστραφήτωσαν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω πάντες οἱ μισοῦντες Σιών·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 129:5
- יֵ֭בֹשׁוּ וְיִסֹּ֣גוּ אָח֑וֹר כֹּ֝֗ל שֹׂנְאֵ֥י צִיּֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Back. By a sincere conversion. (Calmet)
God will cover the presumptuous with eternal confusion, so that none shall bless them, ver. 8. (Worthington)
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
8. “Let them be confounded and turned backward, as many as have evil will at Sion” ( ver. 5 ). They who hate Sion, hate the Church: Sion is the Church. And they who hypocritically enter into the Church, hate the Church. They who refuse to keep the Word of God, hate the Church: “Upon my back have they built:” what will the Church do, save endure the burden even unto the end?