Psalms 88:10
Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tu dominaris potestati maris ; motum autem fluctuum ejus tu mitigas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σὺ δεσπόζεις τοῦ κράτους τῆς θαλάσσης, καὶ τὸν σάλον τῶν κυμάτων αὐτῆς σὺ καταπραύνεις.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 89:10
- אַתָּ֣ה מ֭וֹשֵׁל בְּגֵא֣וּת הַיָּ֑ם בְּשׂ֥וֹא גַ֝לָּ֗יו אַתָּ֥ה תְשַׁבְּחֵֽם
Haydock's commentary
Power. Hebrew, "pride." Thou canst raise a storm, or restore a calm. (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 LXXXIX
10. …For ye have heard, like men accustomed to the watering of the clouds of God, “Thy truth” then “is in the circuit of Thee.” But when without persecutions, when without opposition, since it is said, that “He was born for a sign which shall be spoken against”? Since then that nation, where Thou didst deign to be born, and to dwell, was as a land separated from the waves of the heathen, so that it appeared dry and ready for watering with rain, while the rest of the nations were as a sea in the bitterness of their sterility; what do Thy preachers who scatter Thy truth in circuit of Thee, when the waves of that sea rage furiously? “Thou rulest the power of the sea” ( ver. 9 ). For what was the result of the sea raging thus, but the day which we are now keeping holy? It slew Martyrs, scattered seeds of blood, the harvest of the Church sprang up. …