Psalms 77:66
And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et percussit inimicos suos in posteriora ; opprobrium sempiternum dedit illis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπάταξεν τοὺς ἐχθροὺς αὐτῶν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, ὄνειδος αἰώνιον ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:66
- וַיַּךְ צָרָ֥יו אָח֑וֹר חֶרְפַּ֥ת ע֝וֹלָ֗ם נָ֣תַן לָֽמוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Parts. As they were fleeing, (Berthier) or with emerods. (Chaldean, &c.) (Calmet) (1 Kings v. 10.)
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
33. “And He smote His enemies in the hinder parts” ( ver. 66 ): those, to wit, who were rejoicing that they were able to take His Ark: for they were smitten in their back-parts. Which seemeth to me to be a sign of that punishment, wherewith a man will be tortured, if he shall have looked back upon things behind; which, as saith the Apostle, he ought to value as dung. For they that do so receive the Testament of God, as that they put not off from them the old vanity, are like the hostile nations, who did place the captured Ark of the Testament beside their own idols. And yet those old things even though these be unwilling do fall: for “all flesh is hay, and the glory of man as the flower of hay. The hay hath dried up, and the flower hath fallen off:” but the Ark of the Lord “abideth for everlasting,” to wit, the secret testament of the kingdom of Heaven, where is the eternal Word of God. …