Psalms 9:106
For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation to generation, and shall be without evil.
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- Vulgate (Clementine) shown from Psalms 9:27
- Dixit enim in corde suo : Non movebor a generatione in generationem, sine malo.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Psalms 9:27
- εἶπεν γὰρ ἐν καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ Οὐ μὴ σαλευθῶ ἀπὸ γενεᾶς εἰς γενεὰν ἄνευ κακοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 10:6
- אָמַ֣ר בְּ֭לִבּוֹ בַּל אֶמּ֑וֹט לְדֹ֥ר וָ֝דֹ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא בְרָֽע
Haydock's commentary
Evil. Always happy, or as the Hebrew, Chaldean, &c., may signify, "I shall not desist from evil." (Calmet)
I will gratify my passions. Who dares to oppose me? (A.[Haydock? )
The pride of Nabuchodonosor is known, Daniel iv. 19., &c.
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 X
4. And seeing that being delivered over to the lust of his own heart, and predestinated to extreme condemnation, he is to come, by wicked arts, to that vain and empty height and rule; therefore it follows, “For he hath said in his heart, I shall not move from generation to generation without evil” ( ver. 6 ): that is, my fame and my name will not pass from this generation to the generation of posterity, unless by evil arts I acquire so lofty a principality, that posterity cannot be silent concerning it. For a mind abandoned and void of good arts, and estranged from the light of righteousness, by bad arts devises a passage for itself to a fame so lasting, as is celebrated even in posterity. And they that cannot be known for good, desire that men should speak of them even for ill, provided that their name spread far and wide. …