Psalms 82:3
For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quoniam ecce inimici tui sonuerunt, et qui oderunt te extulerunt caput.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ἰδοὺ οἱ ἐχθροί σου ἤχησαν, καὶ οἱ μισοῦντές σε ἦραν κεφαλήν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 83:3
- כִּֽי הִנֵּ֣ה א֭וֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָי֑וּן וּ֝מְשַׂנְאֶ֗יךָ נָ֣שְׂאוּ רֹֽאשׁ
Haydock's commentary
Noise. Like the boisterous ocean. (Haydock)
Head. To revolt, 4 Kings iii. 9., and 2 Paralipomenon xx.
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 LXXXIII
3. “For lo Thine enemies have sounded, and they that hate Thee have lifted up the head” ( ver. 2 ). He seems to me to signify the last days, when these things that are now repressed by fear are to break forth into free utterance, but quite irrational, so that it should rather be called a “sound,” than speech or discourse. They will not, therefore, then begin to hate, but “they that hate Thee” will then “lift up the head.” And not “heads,” but “head;” since they are to come even to that point, that they shall have that head, which “is lifted up above all that is called God, and that is worshipped;” so that in him especially is to be fulfilled, “He that exalteth himself shall be abased;” and when He to whom it is said, “Keep not silence, nor grow mild, O God,” shall “slay him with the breath of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.” “Upon Thy people they have mali …