Psalms 70:10
For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my soul have consulted together,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quia dixerunt inimici mei mihi, et qui custodiebant animam meam consilium fecerunt in unum,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι εἶπαν οἱ ἐχθροί μου ἐμοί, καὶ οἱ φυλάσσοντες τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐβουλεύσαντο ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:10
- כִּֽי אָמְר֣וּ אוֹיְבַ֣י לִ֑י וְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י נוֹעֲצ֥וּ יַחְדָּֽו
Haydock's commentary
Watched. My guards, (Ferrand) or rather my enemies. (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 LXXI
11. Why do I say this? “For mine enemies have spoken against me, and they that were keeping watch for My soul, have taken counsel together ( ver. 10 ): saying, God hath forsaken Him, persecute Him, and seize Him, for there is no one to deliver Him” ( ver. 11 ). This hath been said concerning Christ. For He that with the great power of Divinity, wherein He is equal to the Father, had raised to life dead persons, on a sudden in the hands of enemies became weak, and as if having no power, was seized. …
Rufinus A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, Section 30
30. It is said then in the Psalms, “I laid me down and slept, and rose up again, because the Lord sustained me.” Again, in another place, “Because of the wretchedness of the needy and the groaning of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord.” And elsewhere, as we have said above, “O Lord, thou hast brought my soul out of hell; Thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.” And in another place, “Because Thou hast turned and quickened me, and brought me out of the deep of the earth again.” In the 87th Psalm He is most evidently spoken of: “He became as a man without help, free among the dead.” It is not said “a man,” but “as a man.” For in that He descended into hell, He was “as a man:” but He was “free among the dead,” because He could not be detained by death. And therefore in the one nature the power of human weakness, in the other the power of divine majesty is exhibited. …