Psalms 93:6
They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Viduam et advenam interfecerunt, et pupillos occiderunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- χήραν καὶ ὀρφανὸν ἀπέκτειναν, καὶ προσήλυτον ἐφόνευσαν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 94:6
- אַ֭לְמָנָה וְגֵ֣ר יַהֲרֹ֑גוּ וִֽיתוֹמִ֣ים יְרַצֵּֽחוּ
Haydock's commentary
Fatherless. Septuagint places this after widow, and have here the stranger, or "proselyte," (Haydock) including those who were circumcised, or had only renounced idolatry.
Jeremias and Ezechiel describe the cruelty of the Chaldeans. (Calmet)
Similar acts of impious rage are but too visible in all ages. (Haydock)
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 XCIV
6. …“They have humbled Thy people, O Lord; and have troubled Thine heritage” ( ver. 5 ). “They have murdered the widow, and the fatherless: and slain the proselyte” ( ver. 6 ); that is, the traveller, the pilgrim: the comer from far, as the Psalmist calleth himself. Each of these expressions is too clear in meaning to make it worth while to dwell upon them.