Psalms 20:12
For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quoniam declinaverunt in te mala ; cogitaverunt consilia quæ non potuerunt stabilire.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ἔκλιναν εἰς σὲ κακά, διελογίσαντο βουλὴν ἣν οὐ μὴ δύνωνται στῆσαι.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 21:12
- כִּי נָט֣וּ עָלֶ֣יךָ רָעָ֑ה חָֽשְׁב֥וּ מְ֝זִמָּ֗ה בַּל יוּכָֽלוּ
Haydock's commentary
Intended. Hebrew, "turned aside," like a torrent. The Ammonites had violated the law of nations, and had attempted to raise up very powerful enemies to invade David. (Calmet)
Establish. Hebrew leaves the sentence imperfect, to shew the utter weakness or impotence of God's enemies. (Berthier)
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
12. “Because they turned evils against Thee.” Now this punishment shall be recompensed to them, because the evils which they supposed to hang over them by Thy reign, they turned against Thee to Thy death. “They imagined a device, which they were not able to establish” ( ver. 11 ). They imagined a device, saying, “It is expedient that one die for all:” which they were not able to establish, not knowing what they said.