Psalms 63:10
And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God: and understood his doings.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et timuit omnis homo. Et annuntiaverunt opera Dei, et facta ejus intellexerunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐφοβήθη πᾶς ἄνθρωπος· καὶ ἀνήγγειλαν τὰ ἔργα τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ τὰ ποιήματα αὐτοῦ συνῆκαν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 64:10
- וַיִּֽירְא֗וּ כָּל אָ֫דָ֥ם וַ֭יַּגִּידוּ פֹּ֥עַל אֱלֹהִ֗ים וּֽמַעֲשֵׂ֥הוּ הִשְׂכִּֽילוּ
Haydock's commentary
Afraid, at the sight of God's judgments on the Babylonians, &c. (Calmet)
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 LXIV
14. “And every man feared” ( ver. 9 ). They that feared not, were not even men. “Every man feared;” that is, every one using reason to perceive the things which were done. Whence they that feared not, must rather be called cattle, rather beasts savage and cruel. A lion ramping and roaring is that people as yet. But in truth every man feared: that is, they that would believe, that trembled at the judgment to come. “And every man feared: and they declared the works of God.”…“And every man hath feared: and they have declared the works of God, and His doings they have perceived.” What is, “His doings they have perceived”? Was it, O Lord Jesus Christ, that Thou wast silent, and like a sheep for a victim wast being led, and didst not open before the shearer Thy mouth, and we thought Thee to be set in smiting and in grief, and knowing how to bear weakness? Was it that Thou wast hiding Thy beaut …