Psalms 75:7
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ab increpatione tua, Deus Jacob, dormitaverunt qui ascenderunt equos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπὸ ἐπιτιμήσεώς σου, ὁ θεὸς Ἰακώβ, ἐνύσταξαν οἱ ἐπιβεβηκότες τοὺς ἵππους.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 76:7
- מִ֭גַּעֲרָ֣תְךָ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יַעֲקֹ֑ב נִ֝רְדָּ֗ם וְרֶ֣כֶב וָסֽוּס
Haydock's commentary
Mounted. Hebrew, "the chariot and horse." (Calmet)
But the riders are meant. (Berthier)
Rabsaces had boasted, that Ezechias could not find men to mount 2,000 horses, if he should give them to him, 4 Kings xviii. 23. (Calmet)
But God chastised his vain boasting. (Haydock)
While he defends his people, their enemies seem to slumber. (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 LXXVI
7. “By Thy chiding, O God of Jacob, there have slept all men that have mounted horses” ( ver. 6 ). Who are they that have mounted horses? They that would not be humble. To sit on horseback is no sin; but it is a sin to lift up the neck of power against God, and to deem one’s self to be in some distinction. Because thou art rich, thou hast mounted; God doth chide, and thou sleepest. Great is the anger of Him chiding, great the anger. Let your Love observe the terrible thing. Chiding hath noise, the noise is wont to make men wake. So great is the force of God chiding, that he said, “By Thy chiding, O God of Jacob, there have slept all men that have mounted horses.” Behold what a sleep that Pharaoh slept who mounted horses. For he was not awake in heart, because against chiding he had his heart hardened. For hardness of heart is slumber. …