Psalms 9:110
In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor.
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- Vulgate (Clementine) shown from Psalms 9:31
- In laqueo suo humiliabit eum ; inclinabit se, et cadet cum dominatus fuerit pauperum.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Psalms 9:31
- ταπεινώσει αὐτόν· κύψει καὶ πεσεῖται ἐν τῷ αὐτὸν κατακυριεῦσαι τῶν πενήτων.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 10:10
- ודכה יָשֹׁ֑חַ וְנָפַ֥ל בַּ֝עֲצוּמָ֗יו חלכאים
Haydock's commentary
Fall. Protestants, "and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones." (Haydock)
He imitates the lion in the fable, which feigned sickness. (Horace, ep.)
But the Vulgate gives a better sense. (Calmet)
"He will bring under the broken, (poor) and will rush on violently with all his power." St. Jerome here explains chelecaim, valenter, instead of "the poor;" (Haydock) as some of the Greek interpreters must have done, if it be true that his version is formed on the plan of the Hexapla, of a mere selection from Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, as Houbigant asserts, (Pref.) in order to confute the Jews. (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 X
8. Again, the two which follow are the same. “In his snare he will humble him,” is craft ( ver. 10 ). “He shall decline and fall, whilst he shall have domination over the poor,” is violence. For a “snare” naturally points to “lying in wait:” but domination most openly conveys the idea of terror. And well does he say, “He will humble him in his snare.” For when he shall begin to do those signs, the more wonderful they shall appear to men, the more those Saints that shall be then will be despised, and, as it were, set at nought: he, whom they shall resist by righteousness and innocence, shall seem to overcome by the marvels that he does. But “he shall decline and fall, whilst he shall have domination over the poor;” that is, whilst he shall inflict whatsoever punishments he will upon the servants of God that resist him.