Psalms 72:19
How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quomodo facti sunt in desolationem ? subito defecerunt : perierunt propter iniquitatem suam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πῶς ἐγένοντο εἰς ἐρήμωσιν; ἐξάπινα ἐξέλιπον, ἀπώλοντο διὰ τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 73:19
- אֵ֤יךְ הָי֣וּ לְשַׁמָּ֣ה כְרָ֑גַע סָ֥פוּ תַ֝֗מּוּ מִן בַּלָּהֽוֹת
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXIII
19. “How have they become a desolation suddenly?” ( ver. 19 ). He is wondering at them, understanding unto the last things. “They have vanished.” Truly like smoke, which while it mounteth upward, doth vanish, so they have vanished. How doth he say, “They have vanished”? In the manner of one who understandeth the last things: “they have perished because of their iniquity.” “Like as the dream of one rising up” ( ver. 20 ). How have they vanished? As vanisheth the dream of one rising up. Fancy a man in sleep to have seen himself find treasures; he is a rich man, but only until he awaketh. “Like as the dream of one rising up:” so they have vanished, like the dream of one awaking. It is sought then and it is not: there is nothing in the hands, nothing in the bed. …