Psalms 77:52
And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et abstulit sicut oves populum suum, et perduxit eos tamquam gregem in deserto :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀπῆρεν ὡς πρόβατα τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτοὺς ὡς ποίμνιον ἐν ἐρήμῳ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:52
- וַיַּסַּ֣ע כַּצֹּ֣אן עַמּ֑וֹ וַֽיְנַהֲגֵ֥ם כַּ֝עֵ֗דֶר בַּמִּדְבָּֽר
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
29. The Psalm proceedeth then after the commemoration of the plagues of the Egyptians ( ver. 51 ) and saith, “And He took away like sheep His people, and He led them through like a flock in the desert” ( ver. 52 ). “And He led them down in hope, and they feared not, and their enemies the sea covered” ( ver. 53 ). This cometh to pass to so much the greater good, as it is a more inward thing, wherein being delivered from the power of darkness, we are in mind translated into the Kingdom of God, and with respect to spiritual pastures we are made to become sheep of God, walking in this world as it were in a desert, inasmuch as to no one is our faith observable: whence saith the Apostle, “Your life is hidden with Christ in God.” But we are being led home in hope, “For by hope we are saved.” Nor ought we to fear. …