Psalms 57:3
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Etenim in corde iniquitates operamini ; in terra injustitias manus vestræ concinnant.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ γὰρ ἐν καρδίᾳ ἀνομίας ἐργάζεσθε ἐν τῇ γῇ, ἀδικίαν αἱ χεῖρες ὑμῶν συνπλέκουσιν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 58:3
- אַף בְּלֵב֮ עוֹלֹ֪ת תִּפְעָ֫ל֥וּן בָּאָ֡רֶץ חֲמַ֥ס יְ֝דֵיכֶ֗ם תְּפַלֵּֽסֽוּן
Haydock's commentary
Heart. Hence proceed evil thoughts, &c. (Haydock)
Quicquid vis & non potes, factum Deus computat. (St. Augustine)
Forge, as you endeavour to preserve the appearance of rectitude. Hebrew, "weigh" in scales. (Calmet)
This double-dealing aggravates the fault. (Worthington)
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 LVIII
3. But now ye do what? Why these things to you do I speak? “Because in heart iniquities ye work on earth” ( ver. 2 ). Iniquities per chance in heart alone? Hear what followeth: both their heart hands do follow, and their heart hands do serve, the thing is thought of, and it is done; or else it is not done, not because we would not, but because we could not, Whatever thou willest and canst not, for done God doth count it . “For in heart Iniquities ye work on earth.” What next? “Iniquities your hands knit together.” What is, “knit together”? From sin, sin, and to sin, sin, because of sin. …