Psalms 92:3
The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Elevaverunt flumina, Domine, elevaverunt flumina vocem suam ; elevaverunt flumina fluctus suos,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπῆραν οἱ ποταμοί, Κύριε, ἐπῆραν οἱ ποταμοὶ φωνὰς ⸆ αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 93:3
- נָשְׂא֤וּ נְהָר֨וֹת יְֽהוָ֗ה נָשְׂא֣וּ נְהָר֣וֹת קוֹלָ֑ם יִשְׂא֖וּ נְהָר֣וֹת דָּכְיָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Floods. The apostles, (Eusebius; St. Augustine) or persecutors. (Worthington)
Waves. This sentence is not in the Roman Septuagint, &c. (Calmet)
But it is in the Alexandrian and Aldine editions. Storms and tides fill all with awe and astonishment. (Calmet)
The motion of waters, when they were first confined to their channels, and the persecutions of the Church, and rebellions against God, are described. (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 XCIII
6. “The floods lift up their voices” ( ver. 3 ). What are these floods, which have lift up their voices? We heard them not: neither when our Lord was born, did we hear rivers speak, nor when He was baptized, nor when He suffered; we heard not that rivers did speak. Read the Gospel, ye find not that rivers spoke. It is not enough that they spoke: “They have lift up their voice:” they have not only spoken, but bravely, mightily, in a lofty voice. What are those rivers which have spoken?…The Spirit itself was a mighty river, whence many rivers were filled. Of that river the Psalmist saith in another passage, “The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God.” Rivers then were made to flow from the belly of the disciples, when they received the Holy Spirit: themselves were rivers, when they had received that Holy Spirit. …