Psalms 91:10
For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam ecce inimici tui, Domine, quoniam ecce inimici tui peribunt ; et dispergentur omnes qui operantur iniquitatem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ἰδοὺ οἱ ἐχθροί σου ἀπολοῦνται, καὶ διασκορπισθήσονται πάντες οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν ἀνομίαν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 92:10
- כִּ֤י הִנֵּ֪ה אֹיְבֶ֡יךָ יְֽהוָ֗ה כִּֽי הִנֵּ֣ה אֹיְבֶ֣יךָ יֹאבֵ֑דוּ יִ֝תְפָּרְד֗וּ כָּל פֹּ֥עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן
Haydock's commentary
Enemies. The Babylonians, (Calmet) or all the wicked at the last day. (Berthier)
This shews God's power, and insures the exaltation of the just. (Menochius)
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 XCII
10. “But Thou, Lord, art the Most Highest for evermore” ( ver. 8 ). Waiting above in Thy eternity until the season of the wicked be past, and that of the just come. “For lo.” Listen, brethren. Already he who speaketh (for he speaketh in our person, in the person of Christ’s body, for Christ speaketh in His own body, that is, in His Church), hath joined himself unto the eternity of God: as I a little before was saying unto you, God is long-suffering and patient, and alloweth all those evil deeds which He seeth to be done by wicked men. Wherefore? because He is eternal, and seeth what He keepeth for them. …