Psalms 74:7
For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quia neque ab oriente, neque ab occidente, neque a desertis montibus :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι οὔτε ἀπὸ ἐξόδων οὔτε ἀπὸ δυσμῶν οὔτε ἀπὸ ἐρήμων,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 75:7
- כִּ֤י לֹ֣א מִ֭מּוֹצָא וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב וְ֝לֹ֗א מִמִּדְבַּ֥ר הָרִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Hills. Hebrew harim, may also be considered as the nominative case; "not from the south are there heights" to which they may flee for succour. (Haydock)
Yet most of the ancients agree with us; though is there "refuge," must then be supplied. (Berthier)
None would be able to screen the Babylonians, Jeremias xxv. 15, 26.
Take the cup of the wine of his fury....The king of Sesac (Babylon) shall drink after them. (Haydock)
The cup is so great that all shall taste, and the last will have the most bitter portion. (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 LXXV
8. “Be not therefore lifted up: speak not iniquity against God” ( ver. 5 ).…What saith He in another Psalm? “These things thou hast done,” having enumerated certain sins. “These things thou hast done,” He saith, “and was silent.” What is, “I was silent”? He is never silent with commandment, but meanwhile He is silent with punishment: He is keeping still from vengeance, He doth not pronounce sentence against the condemned. But this man saith thus, I have done such and such things, and God hath not taken vengeance; behold I am whole, nought of ill hath befallen me. “These things thou hast done, and I was silent: thou hast suspected iniquity, that I shall be like unto thee.” What is, “that I shall be like unto thee”? Because thou art unjust, even Me thou hast deemed unjust; as though an approver of thy misdeeds, and no adversary, no avenger thereof. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CIII
26. “Bless ye the Lord, all ye works of His, in all places of His dominion” ( ver. 22 ). Therefore in every place. Let Him not be blessed where He ruleth not: “in all places of His dominion.” Let no man perchance say: I cannot praise the Lord in the East, because He hath departed unto the West; or, I cannot praise Him in the West, because He is in the East. “For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the desert hills. And why? God is the Judge.” He is everywhere, in such wise that everywhere He may be praised: He is in such wise on every side, that we may be joyful in Him on every side: He is in such wise blessed on every side, that on every side we may live well.…“In every place of His dominion: bless thou the Lord, O my soul!” The last verse is the same as the first: blessing is at the head of the Psalm, blessing at the end; from blessing we set out, to blessing let us …