Psalms 34:11
Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Surgentes testes iniqui, quæ ignorabam interrogabant me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀναστάντες μάρτυρες ἄδικοι ἃ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκον ἐπηρώτων με·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 35:11
- יְ֭קוּמוּן עֵדֵ֣י חָמָ֑ס אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי יִשְׁאָלֽוּנִי
Haydock's commentary
Not. Accusing me of disloyalty, &c. (Flaminius)
We must not imagine that David was cited to the bar. This is admirably explained of Jesus Christ at the tribunal of Pilate, (Calmet) and of the high priests. (Haydock) (Matthew xxvi.)
God knows not what cannot be; (Worthington) and therefore Christ could not acknowledge what was falsely laid to his charge. (Haydock)
The martyrs, &c., have often been exposed to the shafts of calumny. (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 XXXV
13. Let then our Head say, “False witnesses did rise up, they laid to My charge things that I knew not” ( ver. 11 ). But let us say to our Head, Lord, what knewest Thou not? Didst Thou indeed know not anything? Didst Thou not know the hearts of them that charged Thee? Didst Thou not foresee their deceits? Didst Thou not give Thyself into their hands knowingly? Hadst Thou not come that Thou mightest suffer by them? What then knewest Thou not? He knew not sin, and thereby He knew not sin, not by not judging, but by not committing. …