Psalms 16:9
From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- a facie impiorum qui me afflixerunt. Inimici mei animam meam circumdederunt ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπὸ προσώπου ἀσεβῶν τῶν ταλαιπωρησάντων με. οἱ ἐχθροί μου τὴν ψυχήν μου περιέσχον,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 17:9
- מִפְּנֵ֣י רְ֭שָׁעִים ז֣וּ שַׁדּ֑וּנִי אֹיְבַ֥י בְּ֝נֶ֗פֶשׁ יַקִּ֥יפוּ עָלָֽי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XVII
8. “Who savest them that hope in Thee from such as resist Thy right hand:” from such as resist the favour, whereby Thou favourest Me. “Keep Me, O Lord, as the apple of Thine eye” ( ver. 8 ): which seems very little and minute: yet by it is the sight of the eye directed, whereby the light is distinguished from the darkness; as by Christ’s humanity, the divinity of the Judgment distinguishing between the righteous and sinners. “In the covering of Thy wings protect Me.” In the defence of Thy love and mercy protect Me. “From the face of the ungodly who have troubled Me” ( ver. 9 ).