Psalms 77:21
Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ideo audivit Dominus et distulit ; et ignis accensus est in Jacob, et ira ascendit in Israël :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διὰ τοῦτο ἤκουσεν Κύριος καὶ ἀνεβάλετο, καὶ πῦρ ἀνήφθη ἐν Ἰακώβ, καὶ ὀργὴ ἀνέβη ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰσραήλ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:21
- לָכֵ֤ן שָׁמַ֥ע יְהוָ֗ה וַֽיִּתְעַבָּ֥ר וְ֭אֵשׁ נִשְּׂקָ֣ה בְיַעֲקֹ֑ב וְגַם אַ֝֗ף עָלָ֥ה בְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Angry. This is the sense of the Hebrew. Distulit means, "he deferred" (Haydock) to put his threats, (Berthier) or promises, in execution. (Menochius)
The destroyer punished those who gave way to murmuring, 1 Corinthians x., and Numbers xi. 1. (Calmet)
Their incredulity was punished (Worthington) for nearly forty years, and all the guilty who were twenty years old at the first numbering, were cut off in the desert. (Haydock)
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
14. “Wherefore the Lord heard, and He delayed, and fire was lighted in Jacob, and wrath went up into Israel” ( ver. 21 ). He hath explained what he hath called fire. He hath called anger fire: although in strict propriety fire did also burn up many men. What is therefore this that he saith, “The Lord heard, and He delayed”? Did He delay to conduct them into the land of promise, whither they were being led: which might have been done in the space of a few days, but on account of sins they must needs be wasted in the desert, where also they were wasted during forty years? And if this be so, He did then delay the people, not those very persons who tempted and slandered God: for they all perished in the desert, and their children journeyed into the land of promise. …