Psalms 45:7
Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Conturbatæ sunt gentes, et inclinata sunt regna : dedit vocem suam, mota est terra.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐταράχθησαν ἔθνη, ἔκλιναν βασιλεῖαι· ἔδωκεν φωνὴν αὐτοῦ, ἐσαλεύθη ἡ γῆ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 46:7
- הָמ֣וּ ג֭וֹיִם מָ֣טוּ מַמְלָכ֑וֹת נָתַ֥ן בְּ֝קוֹל֗וֹ תָּמ֥וּג אָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
Trembled. We have witnessed the commotions in the East, under Cyrus, and his son; the latter of whom seems to be styled Gog, (Ezechiel xxxviii. 19.) and perished in Judea, which he intended to plunder. (Calmet)
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 XLVI
9. “The heathen are troubled” ( ver. 6 ). And how troubled? why troubled? To cast down the City of God, in the midst whereof is God? To overthrow the tabernacle sanctified, which God helpeth with His Countenance? No: with a wholesome trouble are the heathen now troubled. For what followeth? “And the kingdoms are bowed.” Bowed, saith He, are the kingdoms; not now erected that they may rage, but bowed that they may adore. When were the kingdoms bowed? When that came to pass which was predicted in another Psalm, “All kings shall fall down before Him, all nations shall serve Him.” What cause made the kingdoms to bow? Hear the cause. “The Most High gave His Voice, and the earth was moved.” The fanatics of idolatry, like frogs in the marshes, clamoured, the more tumultuously, the more sordidly, in filth and mire. …