Psalms 82:4
They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Super populum tuum malignaverunt consilium, et cogitaverunt adversus sanctos tuos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν σου κατεπανουργεύσαντο γνώμην, καὶ ἐβουλεύσαντο κατὰ τῶν ἁγίων σου·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 83:4
- עַֽל עַ֭מְּךָ יַעֲרִ֣ימוּ ס֑וֹד וְ֝יִתְיָעֲצ֗וּ עַל צְפוּנֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Saints. Hebrew, "hidden ones;" (Protestants; Haydock) the people under God's protection, (Menochius; Berthier) or the treasures of the temple. (Calmet)
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 …
St John Damascene An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Concerning the volitions and free-will of our Lord Jesus Christ
Observe further that the word judgment ( γνώμη ) is used in many ways and in many senses. Sometimes it signifies exhortation: as when the divine apostle says, Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord; yet I give my judgment : sometimes it means counsel, as when the prophet David says, They have taken crafty counsel against Thy people : sometimes it means a decree, as when we read in Daniel, Concerning whom (or, what ) went this shameless decree forth ? At other times it is used in the sense of belief, or opinion, or purpose, and, to put it shortly, the word judgment has twenty-eight different meanings.