Psalms 43:12
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dedisti nos tamquam oves escarum, et in gentibus dispersisti nos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔδωκας ἡμᾶς ὡς πρόβατα βρώσεως, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν διέσπειρας ἡμᾶς·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 44:12
- תִּ֭תְּנֵנוּ כְּצֹ֣אן מַאֲכָ֑ל וּ֝בַגּוֹיִ֗ם זֵרִיתָֽנוּ
Haydock's commentary
Nations. Many never returned from captivity. (Calmet) See Deuteronomy xxviii. 43.
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 XLIV
10. “Thou has given us like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations” ( ver. 11 ). We have been “devoured” by “the nations.” Those persons are meant, who, through their sufferings, have by process of assimilation, becomes part of the “body” of the Gentile world. For the Church mourns over them, as over members of her body, that have been devoured.