Psalms 79:10
Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dux itineris fuisti in conspectu ejus ; plantasti radices ejus, et implevit terram.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὡδοποίησας ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῆς, καὶ κατεφὺτευσας τὰς ῥίζας αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐπλήσθη ἡ γῆ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 80:10
- פִּנִּ֥יתָ לְפָנֶ֑יהָ וַתַּשְׁרֵ֥שׁ שָׁ֝רָשֶׁ֗יהָ וַתְּמַלֵּא אָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
Sight. Hebrew, "Thou didst dig before it," (Montanus) making the ground ready. (Calmet)
The cloud went before the Israelites. (Worthington)
Land of promise. (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 LXXX
6. “A way Thou hast made in the sight of her, and hast planted the roots of her, and she hath filled the land” ( ver. 9 ). Would she have filled the land, unless a way had been made in the sight of her? What was the way which was made in the sight of her? “I am,” He saith, “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” With reason she hath filled the land. That hath now been said of this vineyard, which hath been accomplished at the last. But in the mean time what? “She hath covered the mountains with her shadow, and with her branch the cedars of God” ( ver. 10 ). “Thou hast stretched out her boughs even unto the sea, and even unto the river her shoots” ( ver. 11 ). …
St Gregory Nazianzen Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia
41. Affairs at home being now settled to his mind, in a way that faithless men who did not know him would have thought impossible, his designs became greater and took a loftier range. For, while all others had their eyes on the ground before them, and directed attention to their own immediate concerns, and, if these were safe, troubled themselves no further, being incapable of any great and chivalrous design or undertaking; he, moderate as he was in all other respects, could not be moderate in this, but with head erect, casting his mental eye about him, took in the whole world over which the word of salvation has made its way. …