Psalms 93:7
And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixerunt : Non videbit Dominus, nec intelliget Deus Jacob.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπαν Οὐκ ὄψεται Κύριος, οὐδὲ συνήσει ὁ θεὸς τοῦ ⸂⸆⸃ Ἰακώβ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 94:7
- וַ֭יֹּ֣אמְרוּ לֹ֣א יִרְאֶה יָּ֑הּ וְלֹא יָ֝בִ֗ין אֱלֹהֵ֥י יַעֲקֹֽב
Haydock's commentary
Of Jacob. A wretched people in captivity. This is spoken insultingly, he knows not, or cannot hinder, their distress, Psalm xiii. 1., and lxxii. 6. (Calmet)
The insolence and cruelty of infidels are reprobated.
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
7. “And they have said, The Lord shall not see” ( ver. 7 ): He observeth not, regardeth not these things: He careth for other matters, He understandeth not. These are the two assertions of the wicked: one which I have just quoted, “These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue, and thou thoughtest unrighteousness, that I will be like thyself.” What meaneth, “that I will be like thyself”? Thou thinkest that I see thy deeds, and that they are pleasing unto Me, because I do not punish them. There is another assertion of the wicked: because God neither regardeth these things, nor observeth that He may know how I live, God heedeth me not. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews 3.7-11
[4.] Ver. 13 . Wherefore “exhort ye one another daily, while it is called to-day.” That is, edify one another, raise yourselves up: lest the same things should befall you. “Lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” Seest thou that sin produces unbelief? For as unbelief brings forth an evil life, so also a soul, “when it is come into a depth of evils, becometh contemptuous” ( Prov. xviii. 3 ), and having become contemptuous it endures not even to believe, in order thereby to free itself from fear. For “they said” (one says), “The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard.” ( Ps. xciv. 7 .) And again, “Our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?” ( Ps. xii. 4 ); and again “Wherefore hath the wicked man provoked God to wrath?” ( Ps. x. …
St Ambrose On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter XIV. Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things
52. This false idea was not unknown to the holy prophets. David himself introduces men to speak whom pride has filled and claimed for its own. For what shows greater pride than when men who are living in sin think it unfit that other sinners should live, and say: “Lord, how long shall the ungodly, how long shall the ungodly triumph?” And later on: “And yet they say, the Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.” Whom the prophet answers, saying: “Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand? He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? or He that made the eye, shall He not see? He that rebuketh the nations, shall He not punish? He that teacheth man knowledge? The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vain.” Does He Who discerns whatsoever is vain not know what is holy, and is He ignorant of what He Himself has made? Can the workma …