Psalms 47:5
For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered together.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam ecce reges terræ congregati sunt ; convenerunt in unum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ἰδοὺ οἱ βασιλεῖς συνήχθησαν, ἤλθοσαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 48:5
- כִּֽי הִנֵּ֣ה הַ֭מְּלָכִים נֽוֹעֲד֑וּ עָבְר֥וּ יַחְדָּֽו
Haydock's commentary
Earth is superfluous. (St. Jerome, ad Sun.) (Calmet)
Yet it is found in the Vatican Septuagint, &c. (Haydock)
The kings of the earth assembled against the Church, (Psalm ii. 2.) as many came to oppose Jerusalem, under Cambyses, Ezechiel xxxviii. 2, 13. (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 XLVIII
5. “For, lo, the kings of the earth are gathered together” ( ver. 3 ). Behold now those sides of the North, see how they come, see how they say, “Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord: and He will teach us His way, and we will walk in it.” “And have come together in one.” In what one, but that “corner-stone”? “They saw it, and so they marvelled” ( ver. 4 ). After their marvelling at the miracles and glory of Christ, what followed? “They were troubled, they were moved” ( ver. 5 ), “trembling took hold upon them.” Whence took trembling hold upon them, but from the consciousness of sins? Let them run then, king after a king; kings, let them acknowledge the King. Therefore saith He elsewhere, “Yet have I been set by Him a King upon His holy hill of Sion.”…A King then was heard of, set up in Sion, to Him were delivered possessions even to the uttermost parts of the earth. …