Psalms 79:12
It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Extendit palmites suos usque ad mare, et usque ad flumen propagines ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξέτεινεν τὰ κλήματα αὐτῆς ἕως θαλάσσης, καὶ ἕως ποταμοῦ τὰς παραφυάδας αὐτῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 80:12
- תְּשַׁלַּ֣ח קְצִירֶ֣הָ עַד יָ֑ם וְאֶל נָ֝הָ֗ר יֽוֹנְקוֹתֶֽיהָ
Haydock's commentary
River Euphrates, from the Mediterranean, Red, and Indian seas. (Haydock) (Deuteronomy xi. 24.)
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 ). …