Psalms 82:18
Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Erubescant, et conturbentur in sæculum sæculi, et confundantur, et pereant.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- αἰσχυνθήτωσαν καὶ ταραχθήτωσαν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος, καὶ ἐντραπήτωσαν καὶ ἀπολέσθωσαν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 83:18
- יֵבֹ֖שׁוּ וְיִבָּהֲל֥וּ עֲדֵי עַ֗ד וְֽיַחְפְּר֥וּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXIII
11. “Fill their faces with shame, and they shall seek Thy name, O Lord” ( ver. 16 ). Good and desirable is this which he prophesieth for them: and he would not prophesy thus, unless there were even in that company of the enemies of God’s people, some men of such kind that this would be granted to them before the last judgment: for now they are mixed together, and this is the body of the enemies, in respect of the envy whereby they rival the people of God. And now, where they can, they make a noise and lift up their head: but severally, not universally as they will do at the end of the world, when the last judgment is about to fall. …