Psalms 28:8
The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall shake the desert of Cades.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- vox Domini concutientis desertum : et commovebit Dominus desertum Cades.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- φωνὴ Κυρίου συνσείοντος ἔρημον, συνσείσει κύριος τὴν ἔρημον Καδής.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 29:8
- ק֣וֹל יְ֭הוָה יָחִ֣יל מִדְבָּ֑ר יָחִ֥יל יְ֝הוָ֗ה מִדְבַּ֥ר קָדֵֽשׁ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXIX
8. “The Voice of the Lord moving the wilderness” ( ver. 8 ). The Voice of the Lord moving to the faith the Gentiles once “without hope, and without God in the world;” where no prophet, no preacher of God’s word, as it were, no man had dwelt. “And the Lord will move the desert of Cades.” And then the Lord will cause the holy word of His Scriptures to be fully known, which was abandoned by the Jews who understood it not.
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).