Psalms 49:22
Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Intelligite hæc, qui obliviscimini Deum, nequando rapiat, et non sit qui eripiat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σύνετε δὴ ταῦτα, οἱ ἐπιλανθανόμενοι τοῦ θεοῦ, μή ποτε ἁρπάσῃ, καὶ μὴ ᾖ ὁ ῥυόμενος.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 50:22
- בִּֽינוּ נָ֣א זֹ֭את שֹׁכְחֵ֣י אֱל֑וֹהַּ פֶּן אֶ֝טְרֹ֗ף וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל
Haydock's commentary
Lest he. Hebrew, "I tear you in pieces." (Protestants) (Haydock)
Rapiat ut Leo. (St. Augustine)
It may be understood of death, (Theodoret) or of God. (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 L
29. But, “understand these things, ye that forget God” ( ver. 22 ). See how He crieth, and keepeth not silence, spareth not. Thou hadst forgotten the Lord, didst not think of thy evil life. Perceive how thou hast forgotten the Lord. “Lest at length He seize like a lion, and there be none to deliver.” What is “like a lion”? Like a brave one, like a mighty one, like him whom none can withstand. To this he made reference when he said, “Lion.” For it is used for praise, it is used also for showing evil. The devil hath been called lion: “Your adversary,” He saith, “like a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom He may devour.” May it not be that whereas he hath been called lion because of savage fierceness, Christ hath been called Lion for wondrous mightiness? And where is that, “The Lion hath prevailed of the tribe of Judah?”…