Psalms 87:8
Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Super me confirmatus est furor tuus, et omnes fluctus tuos induxisti super me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ ἐπεστηρίχθη ὁ θυμός σου, καὶ πάντας τοὺς μετεωρισμούς σου ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ ἐπήγαγες. διάψαλμα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 88:8
- עָ֭לַי סָמְכָ֣ה חֲמָתֶ֑ךָ וְכָל מִ֝שְׁבָּרֶ֗יךָ עִנִּ֥יתָ סֶּֽלָה
Haydock's commentary
Waves. Of afflictions. Christ bore our iniquities. (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 Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXVIII
6. “Thy indignation lieth hard upon Me” ( ver. 7 ), or, as other copies have it, “Thy anger;” or, as others, “Thy fury:” the Greek word θυμὸς having undergone different interpretations. For where the Greek copies have ὀργὴ , no translator hesitated to express it by the Latin ira ; but where the word is θυμὸς , most object to rendering it by ira , although many of the authors of the best Latin style, in their translations from Greek philosophy, have thus rendered the word in Latin. But I shall not discuss this matter further: only if I also were to suggest another term, I should think “indignation” more tolerable than “fury,” this word in Latin not being applied to persons in their senses. …
St Athanasius On Luke x. 22. (Illud Omnia, &c.), Sense in which, and end for which all things were delivered to the Incarnate Son
For whereas man sinned, and is fallen, and by his fall all things are in confusion: death prevailed from Adam to Moses (cf. Rom. v. 14 ), the earth was cursed, Hades was opened, Paradise shut, Heaven offended, man, lastly, corrupted and brutalised (cf. Ps. xlix. 12 ), while the devil was exulting against us; then God, in His loving-kindness, not willing man made in His own image to perish, said, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go?’ ( Isa. vi. 8 ). But while all held their peace, the Son said, ‘Here am I, send Me.’ And then it was that, saying ‘Go Thou,’ He ‘delivered’ to Him man, that the Word Himself might be made Flesh, and by taking the Flesh, restore it wholly. …