Psalms 63:5
To shoot in secret the undefiled.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ut sagittent in occultis immaculatum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τοῦ κατατοξεῦσαι ἐν ἀποκρύφοις ἄμωμον· ἐξάπινα κατατοξεύσουσιν αὐτὸν καὶ οὐ φοβηθήσονται.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 64:5
- לִיר֣וֹת בַּמִּסְתָּרִ֣ים תָּ֑ם פִּתְאֹ֥ם יֹ֝רֻ֗הוּ וְלֹ֣א יִירָֽאוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIV
6. “They have bended the bow, a bitter thing, in order that they may shoot in secret One unspotted” ( ver. 4 ). The bow he calleth lyings in wait. For he that with sword fighteth hand to hand, openly fighteth: he that shooteth an arrow deceiveth, in order to strike. For the arrow smiteth, before it is foreseen to come to wound. But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape? Would they escape our Lord Jesus Christ, who had no need that any one should bear witness to Him of man? “For Himself knew what was in man,” as the Evangelist testifieth. Nevertheless, let us hear them, and look upon them in their doings as if the Lord knew not what they devise. The expression he used, “They have bended the bow,” is the same as, “in secret:” as if they were deceiving by lyings in wait. …