Psalms 20:11
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fructum eorum de terra perdes, et semen eorum a filiis hominum,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὸν καρπὸν αὐτῶν ἀπὸ γῆς ἀπολεῖς, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν ἀπὸ υἱῶν ἀνθρώπων.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 21:11
- פִּ֭רְיָמוֹ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ תְּאַבֵּ֑ד וְ֝זַרְעָ֗ם מִבְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Fruit of the womb, or all their possessions. The family of Herod was presently extirpated. (Berthier)
The works of the wicked must burn. (St. Augustine)
The severity shewn to the Ammonites was perhaps without example, ver. 10. (Calmet)
But this will be more fully verified in the judgment of the wicked, whose schemes against Christ and his Church will fail. (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 XXI
11. “Their fruit shalt Thou destroy out of the earth.” Their fruit, because it is earthly, shalt Thou destroy out of the earth. “And their seed from the sons of men” ( ver. 10 ). And their works; or, whomsoever they have seduced, Thou shalt not reckon among the sons of men, whom Thou hast called into the everlasting inheritance.