Psalms 143:8
Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quorum os locutum est vanitatem, et dextera eorum dextera iniquitatis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὧν τὸ στόμα ἐλάλησεν ματαιότητα, καὶ ἡ δεξιὰ αὐτῶν δεξιὰ ἀδικίας.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 144:8
- אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּ֭יהֶם דִּבֶּר שָׁ֑וְא וִֽ֝ימִינָ֗ם יְמִ֣ין שָֽׁקֶר
Haydock's commentary
Iniquity. Hebrew, "lying." They have sworn fidelity, and have prevaricated. (Calmet)
They adhere not to their engagements of keeping God's law. (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 CXLIV
7. But there are some that conspire, that “gather themselves together against the Lord, and against His Christ.” They have come together, they have conspired. “Flash forth Thy lightnings, and Thou shalt scatter them.” Abound with Thy miracles, and their conspiracy shall be broken.…“Send forth Thine arrows, and Thou shalt confound them.” Let the unsound be wounded, that, being well wounded, they may be made sound; and let them say, being set now in the Church, in the Body of Christ, let them say with the Church, “I am wounded with Love.” “Send forth Thine Hand from on high.” What afterward? What in the end? How conquereth the Body of Christ? By heavenly aid. “For the Lord Himself shall come with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God shall He descend from heaven,” Himself the Saviour of the body, the Hand of God. What is, “Out of many waters”? From many peoples. …