Psalms 84:6
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid in æternum irasceris nobis ? aut extendes iram tuam a generatione in generationem ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ὀργισθήσῃ ἡμῖν; ἢ διατενεῖς τὴν ὀργήν σου ἀπὸ γενεᾶς εἰς γενεάν;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 85:6
- הַלְעוֹלָ֥ם תֶּֽאֱנַף בָּ֑נוּ תִּמְשֹׁ֥ךְ אַ֝פְּךָ֗ לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹֽר
Haydock's commentary
Ever. The Pythagoreans settled their differences before sunset. (Plut.)
"Cherish not, mortals, an immortal wrath." (Aristotle, Rhet. ii. 21.) (Haydock)
As long, O God, as we see not our brethren restored, we shall think that thou art not perfectly reconciled to us. (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 LXXXV
5. “Be not angry with us for ever” ( ver. 5 ). For by the anger of God we are subject to death, and by the anger of God we eat bread on this earth in want, and in the sweat of our face. This was Adam’s sentence when he sinned: and that Adam was every one of us, for “in Adam all die;” the sentence passed on him hath taken effect after him on us. For we were not yet ourselves, but we were in Adam: therefore whatever happened to Adam himself took effect on us also, so that we should die: for we all were in him.…So far as this the sin of thy father hurts thee not, if thou hast changed thyself, even as it would not hurt thy father if he had changed himself. But that which our stock hath received unto its subjection to death, it hath derived from Adam. …