Psalms 73:18
Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Memor esto hujus : inimicus improperavit Domino, et populus insipiens incitavit nomen tuum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μνήσθητι ταύτης τῆς κτίσεώς σου. ἐχθρὸς ὠνείδισεν τὸν κύριον, καὶ λαὸς ἄφρων παρώξυνεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 74:18
- זְכָר זֹ֗את א֭וֹיֵב חֵרֵ֣ף יְהוָ֑ה וְעַ֥ם נָ֝בָ֗ל נִֽאֲצ֥וּ שְׁמֶֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
This. "Congregation." (Theodoret)
Septuagint add, "thy creature." Hebrew is feminine. But it is used instead of our neuter. (Calmet)
Consider this insolent language; the enemy, &c., ver. 22. (Haydock)
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 LXXIV
18. “Mindful be Thou of this Thy creature” ( ver. 18 ). Of what creature of Thine? “The enemy hath reviled the Lord.” O Asaph, grieve over thine old blindness in understanding: “the enemy hath reviled the Lord.” It was said to Christ in His own nation, “a sinner is this Man: we know not whence He is:” we know Moses, to him spake God; this Man is a Samaritan. “And the unwise people hath provoked Thy name.” The unwise people Asaph was at that time, but not the understanding of Asaph at that time. What is said in the former Psalm? “As it were a beast I have become unto Thee, and I am alway with Thee:” because He went not to the gods and idols of the Gentiles. Although he knew not, being like a beast, yet he knew again as a man. …