Psalms 55:7
They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Inhabitabunt, et abscondent ; ipsi calcaneum meum observabunt. Sicut sustinuerunt animam meam,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- παροικήσουσιν καὶ κατακρύψουσιν· αὐτοὶ τὴν πτέρναν μου φυλάξουσιν, καθάπερ ὑπέμεινα τῇ ψυχῇ μου·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 56:7
- יָג֤וּרוּ יצפינו הֵ֭מָּה עֲקֵבַ֣י יִשְׁמֹ֑רוּ כַּ֝אֲשֶׁ֗ר קִוּ֥וּ נַפְשִֽׁי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LVI
9. “They shall sojourn, and shall hide” ( ver. 6 ). To sojourn is to be in a strange land. Sojourners is a term used of those then that live in a country not their own. Every man in this life is a foreigner: in which life ye see that with flesh we are covered round, through which flesh the heart cannot be seen. Therefore the Apostle saith, “Do not before the time judge anything, until the Lord come, and He shall enlighten the hidden things of darkness, and shall manifest the thoughts of the heart; and then praise shall be to each one from God.” Before that this be done, in this sojourning of fleshly life every one carrieth his own heart, and every heart to every other heart is shut. …