Psalms 77:23
And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et mandavit nubibus desuper, et januas cæli aperuit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐνετείλατο νεφέλαις ὑπεράνωθεν, καὶ θύρας οὐρανοῦ ἠνέῳξεν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:23
- וַיְצַ֣ו שְׁחָקִ֣ים מִמָּ֑עַל וְדַלְתֵ֖י שָׁמַ֣יִם פָּתָֽח
Haydock's commentary
And. Or "though he had." Berthier has mandavit. "He commanded," would be better rendered, this order being given before the complaints. God had supplied them abundantly with manna from the clouds, as from his granaries. (Calmet)
Therefore they ought to have trusted in his power and goodness. (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 LXXVIII
15. Lastly, when both these things have been briefly touched, afterwards he is evidently following out the order of the narrative. “Because they believed not in God, nor hoped in His saving health” ( ver. 22 ). For when he had told why fire was lighted in Jacob, and anger went up upon Israel, that is to say, “because they believed not in God, nor hoped in His saving health:” immediately subjoining the evident blessings for which they were ungrateful, he saith, “and He commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of Heaven” ( ver. 23 ). “And He rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them bread of Heaven” ( ver. 24 ). “Bread of angels man did eat: dainties He sent them in abundance” ( ver. 25 ). He brought over the South Wind from Heaven, and in His virtue He led in the South West Wind” ( ver. 26 ). …