Psalms 48:2
Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Audite hæc, omnes gentes ; auribus percipite, omnes qui habitatis orbem :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἀκούσατε ταῦτα, πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, ἐνωτίσασθε, πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὴν οἰκουμένην,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 49:2
- שִׁמְעוּ זֹ֭את כָּל הָֽעַמִּ֑ים הַ֝אֲזִ֗ינוּ כָּל יֹ֥שְׁבֵי חָֽלֶד
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Part 1
1. …“Hear ye these things, all ye nations” ( ver. 1 ). Not then you only who are here. For of what power is our voice so to cry out, as that all nations may hear? For Our Lord Jesus Christ hath proclaimed it through the Apostles, hath proclaimed it in so many tongues that He sent; and we see this Psalm, which before was only repeated in one nation, in the Synagogue of the Jews, now repeated throughout the whole world, throughout all Churches; and that fulfilled which is here spoken of, “Hear ye these words, all ye nations.”…Of whom ye are: “With ears ponder, all ye that dwell in the world.” This He seemeth to have repeated a second time, lest to have said “hear,” before, were too little. What I say, he saith, “hear, with ears ponder,” that is, hear not cursorily. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).