Psalms 92:4
With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the sea: wonderful is the Lord on high.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- a vocibus aquarum multarum. Mirabiles elationes maris ; mirabilis in altis Dominus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπὸ φωνῶν ὑδάτων πολλῶν θαυμαστοὶ οἱ μετεωρισμοὶ τῆς θαλάσσης· θαυμαστὸς ἐν ὑψηλοῖς ὁ κύριος.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 93:4
- מִקֹּל֨וֹת מַ֤יִם רַבִּ֗ים אַדִּירִ֣ים מִשְׁבְּרֵי יָ֑ם אַדִּ֖יר בַּמָּר֣וֹם יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
On high. In heaven, more to be admired than all the phenomena of nature, and more powerful than all the vast armies of the Babylonians, Isaias xl. 15. (Calmet)
The conversion of many nations, (Apocalypse xvii. 5.) is the work and glory of God, (Haydock) and his preserving the Church in the midst of the most violent attacks, shews his power. (Worthington)
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. …