Psalms 58:16
They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ipsi dispergentur ad manducandum ; si vero non fuerint saturati, et murmurabunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- αὐτοὶ διασκορπισθήσονται τοῦ φαγεῖν, ἐὰν δὲ χορτασθῶσιν, καὶ γογγύσουσιν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 59:16
- הֵ֭מָּה ינועון לֶאֱכֹ֑ל אִם לֹ֥א יִ֝שְׂבְּע֗וּ וַיָּלִֽינוּ
Haydock's commentary
Murmur. Hebrew also, "shall tarry all night." Protestants, "grudge." (Haydock)
Finding no oil for their lamps, they will repent like Judas, and blaspheme in hell. (Worthington)
Haydock wrote amid the controversies of his day. The Church teaches that those born into communities separated from her cannot be charged with the sin of separation, and embraces them as brothers (CCC 818).
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, Part 2
7. “They shall be scattered abroad in order that they may eat” ( ver. 15 ); that is, in order that they may gain others, in order that into their Body they may change believers. “But if they shall not be filled, they shall murmur.” Because above also he had spoken of the murmur of them, saying, “For who hath heard?” “And Thou, O Lord,” he saith, “shall deride them, saying, Who hath heard?” Wherefore? Because, as nothing Thou shall count all nations. Let the Psalm be concluded. See ye the Corner exulting, now with both walls rejoicing. The Jews were proud, humbled they have been; Gentiles were despairing, raised up they have been: let them come to the Corner, there let them meet, there run together, there find the kiss of peace; from different parts let them come, but with differing not come, those of Circumcision, these of uncircumcision. …
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).