Psalms 88:13
The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- aquilonem et mare tu creasti. Thabor et Hermon in nomine tuo exsultabunt :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὸν βορρᾶν καὶ θαλάσσας σὺ ἔκτισας, Θαβὼρ καὶ Ἑρμωνιεὶμ τῷ ὀνόματί σου ἀγαλλιάσονται.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 89:13
- צָפ֣וֹן וְ֭יָמִין אַתָּ֣ה בְרָאתָ֑ם תָּב֥וֹר וְ֝חֶרְמ֗וֹן בְּשִׁמְךָ֥ יְרַנֵּֽנוּ
Haydock's commentary
Sea. Hebrew, "the right," (Calmet) which here denotes the south, (Psalm cvi. 3.; Menochius) as Hermon may do the east, (Du Hamel) with reference to Thabor, which lies to the west, though this seems unusual. (Calmet) (Berthier)
The north, &c., more probably refers to the limits of the promised land, from Libanus to the Indian or Mediterranean sea; and from Hermon, on the north-eastern part, to Thabor, on the west. (Haydock)
These two mountains were particularly fertile, and seemed to rejoice. (Berthier)
They "shall praise thy name," euphemesousi. (Symmachus) (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 LXXXIX
12. “The heavens are thine, the earth also is Thine” ( ver. 11 ). From Thee, over Thy earth they rain. Thine are the heavens, by whom is preached Thy truth in circuit of Thee; “Thine is the earth,” which has received Thy truth in circuit of Thee; and what has resulted from that rain? “Thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and all that therein is.” “Thou hast created the north and the seas” ( ver. 12 ). For nothing has any power against Thee, against its Creator. The world indeed may rage through its own malice, and the perversity of its will; does it nevertheless pass over the bound laid down by the Creator, who made all things? Why then do I fear the north wind? Why do I fear the seas? In the north indeed is the devil, who said, “I will sit in the sides of the north; I will be like the Most High;” but Thou hast humbled, as one wounded, the proud one. …