Psalms 68:27
Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam quem tu percussisti persecuti sunt, et super dolorem vulnerum meorum addiderunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ὃν σὺ ἐπάταξας αὐτοὶ κατεδίωξαν, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ ἄλγος τῶν τραυμάτων μου προσέθηκαν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 69:27
- כִּֽי אַתָּ֣ה אֲשֶׁר הִכִּ֣יתָ רָדָ֑פוּ וְאֶל מַכְא֖וֹב חֲלָלֶ֣יךָ יְסַפֵּֽרוּ
Haydock's commentary
Wounds. The enemy persecuted Christ even after his death, opening his side, spreading false reports, and guarding his tomb. (Calmet)
God ordained his death for the good of man: but they sought it out of malice. (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 LXIX
26. “Let the habitation of them become forsaken” ( ver. 26 ). This is now evident. For in the same manner as He hath mentioned not only a secret deliverance of His, saying, “Give heed to My soul, and redeem her;” but also one open after the body, adding, “because of mine enemies deliver me:” so also to these men He foretelleth how there are to be certain secret misfortunes, whereof a little before He was speaking.…For the blindness of the Jews was secret vengeance: but the open was what? “Let their habitation become forsaken, and in their tabernacles let there not be any one to inhabit.” There hath come to pass this thing in the very city Jerusalem, wherein they thought themselves mighty in crying against the Son of God, “Crucify, Crucify;” and in prevailing because they were able to kill Him that raised dead men. …
St Athanasius Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.), The accusation shews the mind of the accusers
Now if they had been of sound mind, they would have seen that they were in this strait, and that they were falling foul of their own arguments. But since they have lost all judgment, they are still led on to persecute, and seek to destroy, and yet perceive not their own impiety. It may be they even venture to accuse Providence itself (for nothing is beyond the reach of their presumption), that it does not deliver up to them those whom they desire; certain as it is, according to the saying of our Saviour, that not even a sparrow can fall into the snare without our Father which is in heaven. But when these accursed ones obtain possession of any one, they immediately forget not only all other, but even themselves; and raising their brow in very haughtiness, they neither acknowledge times and seasons, nor respect human nature in those whom they injure. …
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).