Psalms 77:13
He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Interrupit mare, et perduxit eos, et statuit aquas quasi in utre :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διέρρηξεν θάλασσαν καὶ διήγαγεν αὐτούς, ἔστησεν ὕδατα ὡσεὶ ἀσκόν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:13
- בָּ֣קַע יָ֭ם וַיַּֽעֲבִירֵ֑ם וַֽיַּצֶּב מַ֥יִם כְּמוֹ נֵֽד
Haydock's commentary
Vessel. Literally, "bottle," like walls on either side.
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 LXXVIII
11. For He that “did burst asunder the sea and made them go through, did confine the waters as it were in bottles” ( ver. 13 ), in order that the water might stand up first as if it were shut in, is able by His grace to restrain the flowing and ebbing tides of carnal desires, when we renounce this world, so that all sins having been thoroughly washed away, as if they were enemies, the people of the faithful may be made to pass through by means of the Sacrament of Baptism. He that “led them home in the cloud of the day, and in the whole of the night in the illumination of fire” ( ver. …