Psalms 138:19
If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si occideris, Deus, peccatores, viri sanguinum, declinate a me :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν ἀποκτείνῃς ἁμαρτωλούς, ὁ θεός· ἄνδρες αἱμάτων, ἐκκλίνατε ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 139:19
- אִם תִּקְטֹ֖ל אֱל֥וֹהַּ רָשָׁ֑ע וְאַנְשֵׁ֥י דָ֝מִ֗ים ס֣וּרוּ מֶֽנִּי
Haydock's commentary
If. Hebrew, "surely." (Houbigant)
From me. How long shall I be forced to live among the enemies of the Lord? (Calmet)
Since he will reward the good, and punish the wicked eternally, I renounce the society of the latter. (Worthington)
He specifies murderers, as he had described the wonderful formation of man. (Menochius)
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 CXXXIX
18. And then He telleth what meanwhile, during this whole time when He already has risen, and remaineth still with the Father, He suffereth by the intermixture of sinners in His Body, the Church, and by the separation of heretics. “If Thou, O God, shalt slay the sinners (since Thou shalt say in Thy thought, Depart from Me, ye men of blood), they shall receive in vanity their cities” ( ver. 19, 20 ). The words seem to be connected in this order; “If Thou, O God, shall slay the sinners, they shall receive in vanity their cities.” Thus are sinners slain, because, “having their understandings darkened, they are alienated from the life of God.” For on account of elation they lose confession, and so they are slain, and in them is fulfilled what Scripture saith, “Confession perisheth from the dead, as from one that is not.” And so “they receive in vanity their cities,” that is, their vain peopl …