Psalms 80:5
For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quia præceptum in Israël est, et judicium Deo Jacob.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι πρόσταγμα τῷ Ἰσραήλ ἐστιν, καὶ κρίμα τῷ θεῷ Ἰακώβ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 81:5
- כִּ֤י חֹ֣ק לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל ה֑וּא מִ֝שְׁפָּ֗ט לֵאלֹהֵ֥י יַעֲקֹֽב
Haydock's commentary
Jacob. It is a duty which we owe to God, in obedience to his command. Hebrew may be, (Haydock) "a decree for the princes (gods) of Jacob." (Calmet)
Protestants, "a law of," &c.
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 LXXXI
7. “Because it is a commandment for Israel, and a judgment for the God of Jacob” ( ver. 4 ). Where a commandment, there judgment. For, “They that have sinned in the Law, by the Law shall be judged.” And the very Giver of the commandment, the Lord Christ, the Word made flesh, saith, “For judgment I am come into the world, that they that see not may see, and they that see may be made blind.” What is, “That they that see not may see, they that see be made blind,” but that the lowly be exalted, the proud thrown down? For not they that see are to be made blind, but those who to themselves seem to see are to be convicted of blindness. This is brought about in the mystery of the press, that they who see may not see, and they that see be made blind.