Psalms 77:32
In all these things they sinned still: and they believed not for his wondrous works.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In omnibus his peccaverunt adhuc, et non crediderunt in mirabilibus ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν πᾶσιν τούτοις ἥμαρτον ἔτι, καὶ οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν τοῖς θαυμασίοις αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:32
- בְּכָל זֹ֭את חָֽטְאוּ ע֑וֹד וְלֹֽא הֶ֝אֱמִ֗ינוּ בְּנִפְלְאוֹתָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Still. Notwithstanding this instance of God's severity, they fell shortly after into greater sins, and would have stoned Moses, &c., despairing of ever taking possession of the promised land, which highly displeased God, so that he swore, that none of the rebels should enter it. Many were also slain in the sedition of Core, (Numbers xiii. 17.) and the rest did not live about thirty-eight years. (Calmet)
Thus about 600,000 perished, (Worthington) having done nothing worthy of praise. (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
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor, Chapter IX. That It is the Prerogative of the Same Power to Be Beneficent and to Punish Justly. Also the Manner of the Instruction of the Logos
Such are the causes of provocation for which the Judge comes to inflict punishment on those that would not choose a life of goodness. Wherefore also afterwards He assailed them more roughly; in order, if possible, to drag them back from their impetuous rush towards death. He therefore tells by David the most manifest cause of the threatening: “They believed not in His wonderful works. When He slew them, they sought after Him, and turned and inquired early after God; and remembered that God was their Helper, and God the Most High their Redeemer.” Thus He knew that they turned for fear, while they despised His love: for, for the most part, that goodness which is always mild is despised; but He who admonishes by the loving fear of righteousness is reverenced.
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
17. But the generation crooked and embittering, “in all these things sinned yet more, and they believed not in His wonderful works” ( ver. 32 ). “And in their days failed in vanity” ( ver. 33 ). Though they might, if they had believed, have had days in truth without failing, with Him to whom hath been said, “Thy years shall not fail.” Therefore, “their days failed in vanity, and their years with haste.” For the whole life of mortal men is hastening, and that which seemeth to be longer is but a vapour of somewhat longer duration.