Psalms 58:7
They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Convertentur ad vesperam, et famem patientur ut canes : et circuibunt civitatem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπιστρέψουσιν εἰς ἑσπέραν καὶ λιμώξουσιν ὡς κύων, καὶ κυκλώσουσιν πόλιν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 59:7
- יָשׁ֣וּבוּ לָ֭עֶרֶב יֶהֱמ֥וּ כַכָּ֗לֶב וִיס֥וֹבְבוּ עִֽיר
Haydock's commentary
Evening, when they came to take David. But, out of regard for Michol, they providentially waited till he had escaped, 2 Kings xix. (Haydock)
Nehemias was obliged to watch continually, 2 Esdras iv. 11, 23. (Calmet)
The Jews will embrace the faith at the end of the world, (St. Augustine) or they will be destroyed (St. Hilary) or banished by Titus and Adrian (A.D. 137); the latter of whom forbade them even to look at Jerusalem from an eminence. They could not enter it in the time of Eusebius, (Psalm xlviii.) and St. Jerome. (Soph. 1.)
They have a hunger for God's word, of which they have lost the true sense. (St. Athanasius)
Persecutors are never satiated, though they labour to destroy, all their lives. (Worthington)
They allow themselves no rest. (Menochius)
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 1
14. “Let them be converted at the evening” ( ver. 6 ). Of certain men he is speaking that were once workers of iniquity, and once darkness, being converted in the evening. What is, “in the evening”? Afterward. What is “at the even ing”? Later. For before, before that they crucified Christ, they ought to have acknowledged their Physician. Wherefore, when He had been crucified, rising again, into Heaven ascending, after that He sent His Holy Spirit, wherewith were fulfilled they that were in one house, and they began to speak with the tongues of all nations, there feared the crucifiers of Christ; they were pricked through with their consciences, they besought counsel of safety from the Apostles, they heard, “Repent, and be baptized each one of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and your sins shall be remitted unto you.” After the slaying of Christ, after the shedding of the blood of …