Psalms 77:42
They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non sunt recordati manus ejus, die qua redemit eos de manu tribulantis :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐκ ἐμνήσθησαν τῆς χειρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἡμέρας ἧς ἐλυτρώσατο αὐτοὺς ἐκ χειρὸς θλίβοντος·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:42
- לֹא זָכְר֥וּ אֶת יָד֑וֹ י֝֗וֹם אֲֽשֶׁר פָּדָ֥ם מִנִּי צָֽר
Haydock's commentary
Not. How could they so soon forget these prodigies? We might ask, how came Adam to pay so little attention to God's command? How do many act contrary to their better knowledge? Upon occasion of this forgetfulness, the psalmist repeats many of the chief miracles recorded, Exodus vii., and xiii. (Berthier)
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
23. I say then of these crooked and embittering persons, “How often they exasperated Him in the desert, and provoked Him to wrath in the waterless place!” ( ver. 40 ). “And they turned themselves and tempted God, and exasperated the Holy One of Israel” ( ver. 41 ). He is repeating that same unbelief of theirs, of which He had made mention above. But the reason of the repetition is, in order that there may be mentioned also the plagues which He inflicted on the Egyptians for their sakes: all which things they certainly ought to have remembered, and not to be ungrateful. Lastly, there followeth what? “They remembered not His hands, in the day when He redeemed them from the hand of the troubler” ( ver. 42 ). And he beginneth to speak of what things He did to the Egyptians: “He set in Egypt His signs, and His prodigies in the plain of Thanis” ( ver. …