Psalms 30:7
Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Odisti observantes vanitates supervacue ; ego autem in Domino speravi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐμίσησας τοὺς φυλάσσοντας ματαιότητας διὰ κενῆς· ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίῳ ἤλπισα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 31:7
- שָׂנֵ֗אתִי הַשֹּׁמְרִ֥ים הַבְלֵי שָׁ֑וְא וַ֝אֲנִ֗י אֶל יְהוָ֥ה בָּטָֽחְתִּי
Haydock's commentary
Vanities. Idols, (Calmet) superstitious practices, (Hammond) and lies. It may refer to Saul, who performed his promises so ill, and neglected the laws which he had made against witches. (Calmet)
Protestants, "I have hated them that regard lying vanities." (Haydock)
The ancient interpreters, with St. Jerome, seem not to have seen the i, which changes the second into the first person, though here it would be less agreeable to the context. This i would appear unnecessary, if the present Hebrew were correct. (Berthier) (Houbigant)
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 Book VIII, Chapter II
4. O Lord, Lord, who hast bowed the heavens and come down, touched the mountains and they did smoke, by what means didst Thou convey Thyself into that bosom? He used to read, as Simplicianus said, the Holy Scripture, most studiously sought after and searched into all the Christian writings, and said to Simplicianus, not openly, but secretly, and as a friend, “Know thou that I am a Christian.” To which he replied, “I will not believe it, nor will I rank you among the Christians unless I see you in the Church of Christ.” Whereupon he replied derisively, “Is it then the walls that make Christians?” And this he often said, that he already was a Christian; and Simplicianus making the same answer, the conceit of the “walls” was by the other as often renewed. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXXI
7. “Thou hatest them that hold to vanity uselessly” ( ver. 6 ). Thou hatest them that hold to the false happiness of the world. “But I have trusted in the Lord.”
St Gregory Nazianzen Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia
79. He lay, drawing his last breath, and awaited by the choir on high, towards which he had long directed his gaze. Around him poured the whole city, unable to bear his loss, inveighing against his departure, as if it had been an oppression, and clinging to his soul, as though it had been capable of restraint or compulsion at their hands or their prayers. Their suffering had driven them distracted, all were eager, were it possible, to add to his life a portion of their own. And when they failed, for it must needs be proved that he was a man, and, with his last words “Into thy Hands I commend my spirit,” he had joyfully resigned his soul to the care of the angels who carried him away; not without having some religious instructions and injunctions for the benefit of those who were present, then occurred a wonder more remarkable than any which had happened before.