Psalms 82:9
Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Etenim Assur venit cum illis : facti sunt in adjutorium filiis Lot.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ γὰρ καὶ Ἀσσοὺρ συνπαρεγένετο μετ᾽ αὐτῶν, ἐγενήθησαν εἰς ἀντίλημψιν τοῖς υἱοῖς Λώτ. διάψαλμα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 83:9
- גַּם אַ֭שּׁוּר נִלְוָ֣ה עִמָּ֑ם הָ֤י֥וּ זְר֖וֹעַ לִבְנֵי ל֣וֹט סֶֽלָה
Haydock's commentary
Assyrian, or "Assur," sprung from Dedan, (Genesis xxv. 3.) and dwelt near the Ammonites. (Calmet)
Come. Hebrew, "an arm to," &c. (Haydock)
All infidels conspire against Catholics, (Worthington) and are willing to forget their private quarrels. (Haydock)
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 Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Ageruchia
I shall now say a few words of our present miseries. A few of us have hitherto survived them, but this is due not to anything we have done ourselves but to the mercy of the Lord. Savage tribes in countless numbers have over run all parts of Gaul. The whole country between the Alps and the Pyrenees, between the Rhine and the Ocean, has been laid waste by hordes of Quadi, Vandals, Sarmatians, Alans, Gepids, Herules, Saxons, Burgundians, Allemanni and, alas! for the commonweal! even Pannonians. For “Assur also is joined with them.” The once noble city of Moguntiacum has been captured and destroyed. In its church many thousands have been massacred. The people of Vangium after standing a long siege have been extirpated. …