Psalms 82:6
For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam cogitaverunt unanimiter ; simul adversum te testamentum disposuerunt :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ἐβουλεύσαντο ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, κατὰ σοῦ διαθήκην διέθεντο,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 83:6
- כִּ֤י נוֹעֲצ֣וּ לֵ֣ב יַחְדָּ֑ו עָ֝לֶ֗יךָ בְּרִ֣ית יִכְרֹֽתוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXIII
5. “Since they have imagined with one consent; together against Thee have they disposed a testament” ( ver. 5 ): as though they could be the stronger. In fact, “a testament” is a name given in the Scriptures not only to that which is of no avail till the death of the testators, but every covenant and decree they used to call a testament. For Laban and Jacob made a testament, which was certainly to have force between the living; and such cases without number are read in the words of God. Then he begins to make mention of the enemies of Christ, under certain proper names of nations; the interpretation of which names sufficiently indicates what he would have to be understood. For by such names are most suitably figured the enemies of the truth. …