Psalms 76:19
The voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- vox tonitrui tui in rota. Illuxerunt coruscationes tuæ orbi terræ ; commota est, et contremuit terra.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- φωνὴ τῆς βροντῆς σου ἐν τῷ τροχῷ, ἐσαλεύθη καὶ ἔντρομος ἐγενήθη ἡ γῆ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 77:19
- ק֤וֹל רַעַמְךָ֨ בַּגַּלְגַּ֗ל הֵאִ֣ירוּ בְרָקִ֣ים תֵּבֵ֑ל רָגְזָ֖ה וַתִּרְעַ֣שׁ הָאָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
Wheel. (Protestants) (Haydock) Hebrew, "a whirlwind," (Calmet) or "wheel," (Pagnin) in the air. (Haydock)
The noise of thunder is something similar to a wheel, rattling on the pavement. (Haydock)
Salmoneus foolishly tried to imitate it with his chariot. (Apoll. Bib. i.)
Trembled. The preaching of the apostles was attended with success. (Haydock) (Fathers) (Calmet)
Earthquakes were felt, and men were under a general alarm. (Menochius)
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 LXXVII
18. In praises of God, in confessions of sins, in hymns and in songs, in prayers, “There is a multitude of the sound of waters. The clouds have uttered a voice” ( ver. 17 ). Thence that sound of waters, thence the troubling of the abysses, because “the clouds have uttered a voice.” What clouds? The preachers of the word of truth. What clouds? Those concerning which God doth menace a certain vineyard, which instead of grape had brought forth thorns and He saith, “I will command My clouds, that they rain no rain upon it.” In a word, the Apostles forsaking the Jews, went to the Gentiles: in preaching Christ among all nations, “the clouds have uttered a voice.” “For Thine arrows have gone through.” Those same voices of the clouds He hath again called arrows. For the words of the Evangelists were arrows. For these things are allegories. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).