Psalms 139:3
Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui cogitaverunt iniquitates in corde, tota die constituebant prælia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἵτινες ἐλογίσαντο ἀδικίας ἐν καρδίᾳ, ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν παρετάσσοντο πολέμους·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 140:3
- אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָשְׁב֣וּ רָע֣וֹת בְּלֵ֑ב כָּל י֝֗וֹם יָג֥וּרוּ מִלְחָמֽוֹת
Haydock's commentary
Battles. And formed plots to destroy the just. (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 CXL
5. “Who have imagined unrighteousnesses in their heart” ( ver. 2 ).…From them free me, from them let Thy hand be most powerful to deliver me. For easy is it to avoid open enmities, easy is it to turn aside from an enemy declared and manifest, while iniquity is in his lips as well as his heart; he is a troublesome enemy, he is secret, he is with difficulty avoided, who beareth good things in his lips, while in his heart he concealeth evil things. “All the day long did they make war.” What is, “war”? They made for me what I was to fight against all the day. For from thence, from such hearts as these, ariseth all that the Christian fighteth against. …