Psalms 73:3
Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Leva manus tuas in superbias eorum in finem : quanta malignatus est inimicus in sancto !
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔπαρον τὰς χεῖράς σου ἐπὶ τὰς ὑπερηφανίας αὐτῶν εἰς τέλος, ὅσα ἐπονηρεύσατο ὁ ἐχθρὸς ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 74:3
- הָרִ֣ימָה פְ֭עָמֶיךָ לְמַשֻּׁא֣וֹת נֶ֑צַח כָּל הֵרַ֖ע אוֹיֵ֣ב בַּקֹּֽדֶשׁ
Haydock's commentary
Hands. Hebrew, "feet," (Mont.; Haydock) or "strokes," phehamec. (Berthier)
"The elevation of thy feet (thy foot-stool, or temple; Calmet) is destroyed unto the end;" (St. Jerome) or "for victory," as Symmachus renders netsach. The Chaldeans have boasted of their victory over thee, and violated thy most holy places. (Haydock)
This is what fills me with grief. (Berthier)
But thou wilt punish them. The captives saw the overthrow of their empire. (Calmet)
God's former wonders give reason to hope, that he will not fail to assist his Church, which he delivered from the hand of Pharao, and by Christ's death, from the devil's power. (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 LXXIV
5. “Lift up Thine hand upon their pride at the end” ( ver. 3 ). As Thou didst repel us at the end, so “lift up Thine hand upon the pride of them at the end.” The pride of whom? Of those by whom Jerusalem was overthrown. But by whom was it, but by the kings of the Gentiles? Well was the hand of Him lifted up upon the pride of them at the end: for they too have now known Christ. “For the end of the Law is Christ for righteousness to every one believing.” How well doth he wish for them! As if angry he is speaking, and he is seeming to speak evil: and O that there would come to pass the evil which he speaketh: nay now in the name of Christ that it is coming to pass let us rejoice. …