Psalms 77:59
God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Audivit Deus, et sprevit, et ad nihilum redegit valde Israël.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἤκουσεν ὁ θεός, καὶ ὑπερεῖδεν καὶ ἐξουδένωσεν τὸν Ἰσραὴλ σφόδρα·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:59
- שָׁמַ֣ע אֱ֭לֹהִים וַֽיִּתְעַבָּ֑ר וַיִּמְאַ֥ס מְ֝אֹ֗ד בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Heard. So he did the crimes of Sodom, Genesis xviii. 20. (Calmet)
Reduced. Hebrew, "abhorred exceedingly several in Israel." (Haydock)
The people were not exterminated; but greatly reduced in the time of the judges. (Worthington)
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
31. “And He made to dwell in their tabernacles the tribes of Israel.” In the tabernacles, he saith, of the Gentiles He made the tribes of Israel to dwell, which I think can better be explained spiritually, inasmuch as unto celestial glory, whence sinning angels have been cast forth and cast down, by Christ’s grace we are being uplifted. For that generation crooked and embittering, inasmuch as for these corporal blessings they put not off the coat of oldness, “Did tempt” yet, “and provoked the high God, and His testimonies they kept not ( ver. 56 ): and they turned them away, and they kept not the covenant, like their fathers” ( ver. 57 ). …