Psalms 64:8
Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui conturbas profundum maris, sonum fluctuum ejus. Turbabuntur gentes,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ συνταράσσων τὸ ὕδωρ τῆς θαλάσσης, ἤχους κυμάτων αὐτῆς. ταραχθήσονται τὰ ἔθνη
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 65:8
- מַשְׁבִּ֤יחַ שְׁא֣וֹן יַ֭מִּים שְׁא֥וֹן גַּלֵּיהֶ֗ם וַהֲמ֥וֹן לְאֻמִּֽים
Haydock's commentary
Troublest. Protestants, "stillest the noise." (Haydock)
Troubled. The most obdurate are converted from all countries. (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 LXV
11. “That troublest the bottom of the sea” ( ver. 7 ). He hath done this: it is seen what He hath done. For He hath prepared mountains in His strength, hath sent them to preach: girded about He is by believers in power: and moved is the sea, moved is the world, and it beginneth to persecute His saints. “Girded about in power: that troublest the bottom of the sea.” He hath not said, that troublest the sea; but “the bottom of the sea.” The bottom of the sea is the heart of ungodly men. For just as from the bottom more thoroughly all things are stirred, and the bottom holdeth firm all things: so whatsoever hath gone forth: by tongue, by hands, by divers powers for the persecution of the Church, from the bottom hath gone forth. For if there were not the root of iniquity in the heart, all those things would not have gone forth against Christ. …