Psalms 9:111
For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.
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- Vulgate (Clementine) shown from Psalms 9:32
- Dixit enim in corde suo : Oblitus est Deus ; avertit faciem suam, ne videat in finem.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Psalms 9:32
- εἶπεν γὰρ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ Ἐπιλέλησται ὁ θεός, ἀπέστρεψεν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ τοῦ μὴ βλέπειν εἰς τέλος.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 10:11
- אָמַ֣ר בְּ֭לִבּוֹ שָׁ֣כַֽח אֵ֑ל הִסְתִּ֥יר פָּ֝נָ֗יו בַּל רָאָ֥ה לָנֶֽצַח
Haydock's commentary
End. God delays for a time; but he will punish. (Calmet)
Religion lays open all the sophisms of infidelity. (Berthier)
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
9. But how shall he decline, and fall? “For he hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten; He turneth away His face, that He see not unto the end” ( ver. 11 ). This is declining, and the most wretched fall, while the mind of a man prospers as it were in its iniquities, and thinks that it is spared; when it is being blinded, and kept for an extreme and timely vengeance: of which the Psalmist now speaks: “Arise, O Lord God, let Thine hand be exalted” ( ver. 12 ): that is, let Thy power be made manifest. Now he had said above, “Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail, let the heathen be judged in Thy sight:” that is, in secret, where God alone seeth. …