Psalms 77:63
Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Juvenes eorum comedit ignis, et virgines eorum non sunt lamentatæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τοὺς νεανίσκους αὐτῶν κατέφαγεν πῦρ, καὶ αἱ παρθένοι αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐπένθησαν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:63
- בַּחוּרָ֥יו אָֽכְלָה אֵ֑שׁ וּ֝בְתוּלֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א הוּלָּֽלוּ
Haydock's commentary
Fire of God's indignation, (Menochius; Worthington) or of war.
Lamented. St. Jerome, "its virgins no one bewailed." (Haydock)
He seems to have read éullu, with the Septuagint. Others translate, (Berthier) "did not mourn," though they were now deprived of the hopes of marrying, (Calmet) or "the virgins were not praised" in the canticles used at the marriage-feast, (Chaldean, &c.) non epithalamio celebratæ sunt, (Montanus) or "married." (Pagnin) (Haydock)
There was no time to bewail the death of the young men, or the captivity of the women. (Calmet)
Each one was too solicitous for his own safety. (Haydock)
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
32. “God heard, and He despised:” that is, He gave heed and took vengeance. “And unto nothing He brought Israel exceedingly” ( ver. 60 ). For when God despised, what were they who by God’s help were what they were? But doubtless he is commemorating the doing of that thing, when they were conquered by the Philistines in the time of Heli the priest, and the Ark of the Lord was taken, and with great slaughter they were laid low. This it is that he speaketh of. “And He rejected the tabernacle of Selom, His tabernacle, where He dwelled among men” ( ver. 61 ). He hath elegantly explained why He rejected His tabernacle, when he saith, “where He dwelled among men.” When therefore they were not worthy for Him to dwell among, why should He not reject the tabernacle, which indeed not for Himself He had established, but for their sakes, whom now He judged unworthy for Him to dwell among. …