Psalms 55:6
All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tota die verba mea execrabantur ; adversum me omnes cogitationes eorum in malum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν τοὺς λόγους μου ἐβδελύσσοντο, κατ᾽ ἐμοῦ πάντες οἱ διαλογισμοὶ αὐτῶν εἰς κακόν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 56:6
- כָּל הַ֭יּוֹם דְּבָרַ֣י יְעַצֵּ֑בוּ עָלַ֖י כָּל מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֣ם לָרָֽע
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LVI
8. “All day long my words they abhorred” ( ver. 5 ). Thus they are, ye know. Speak truth, preach truth, proclaim Christ to the heathen, proclaim the Church to heretics, proclaim to all men salvation: they contradict, they abhor my words. But when my words they abhor, whom think ye they abhor, save Him in whom I shall praise my discourses? “All day long my words they abhorred.” Let this at least suffice, let them abhor words, no farther let them proceed, censure, reject! Be it far from them! Why should I say this? When words they reject, when words they hate, those words which from the fount of truth flow forth, what would they do to him through whom the very words are spoken? what but that which followeth, “Against me all the counsels of them are for evil?” If the bread itself they hate, how spare they the basket wherein it is ministered? “Against me all the counsels of them are for evil …