Psalms 77:11
And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et obliti sunt benefactorum ejus, et mirabilium ejus quæ ostendit eis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπελάθοντο τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν θαυμασίων αὐτοῦ ὧν ἔδειξεν αὐτοῖς,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:11
- וַיִּשְׁכְּח֥וּ עֲלִילוֹתָ֑יו וְ֝נִפְלְאוֹתָ֗יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֶרְאָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
10. “And they forgat His benefits, and the wonderful works of Him which He showed to them; before their fathers the wonderful things which He did” ( ver. 11 ). What this is, is not a question to be negligently passed over. Concerning those very fathers he was speaking a little before, that they had been a generation crooked and embittering.…What fathers, inasmuch as these are the very fathers, whom he would not have posterity to be like? If we shall take them to be those out of whom the others had derived their being, for example, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, by this time they had long since fallen asleep, when God showed wonderful things in Egypt. For there followeth, “in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Thanis” ( ver. 12 ): where it is said that God showed to them wonderful things before their fathers. …