Psalms 91:12
My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et despexit oculus meus inimicos meos, et in insurgentibus in me malignantibus audiet auris mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπεῖδεν ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐν τοῖς ἐχθροῖς μου, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐπανισταμένοις ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ πονηρευομένοις εἰσακούσεται τὸ οὖς μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 92:12
- וַתַּבֵּ֥ט עֵינִ֗י בְּשׁ֫וּרָ֥י בַּקָּמִ֖ים עָלַ֥י מְרֵעִ֗ים תִּשְׁמַ֥עְנָה אָזְנָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Me. I shall live to hear of the vengeance which God will take, Psalm cxi. 9. (Calmet)
The just pray for sinners here; but must approve of God's judgment. (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 XCII
12. “And Mine eye hath beheld on mine enemies” ( ver. 11 ). Whom doth he call his enemies? All the workers of iniquity. Do not observe whether thy friend be wicked: let an occasion come, and then thou provest him. Thou beginnest to go contrary to his iniquity, and then thou shalt see that when he was flattering thee, he was thy enemy; but thou hadst not yet knocked, not to raise in his heart what was not there, but that what was there might break out. “Mine eye also hath looked upon mine enemies: and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that rise up against me.” When? In my old age. What is, in old age? In the last times. And what shall our ear hear? Standing on the right hand, we shall hear what shall be said to them that are on the left.