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A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God. See also: Psalms 28:1Psalms 35:22Psalms 50:3For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads. See also: Psalms 81:15Matthew 27:24Isaiah 17:12They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. See also: Psalms 64:2Psalms 27:5Psalms 31:20“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” See also: Jeremiah 48:2Jeremiah 11:19Esther 3:6-9For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. See also: Psalms 2:2Revelation 17:13Isaiah 8:9-10The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; See also: 1 Chronicles 5:102 Chronicles 20:10-112 Chronicles 20:1Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; See also: Joshua 13:5Ezekiel 27:3Ezekiel 27:9Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah. See also: Deuteronomy 2:9Genesis 25:3Genesis 19:37-38Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; See also: Isaiah 9:4Judges 4:15-24Numbers 31:7-8who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth. See also: Zephaniah 1:171 Samuel 28:7Joshua 17:11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, See also: Judges 7:25Judges 8:12-21who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.” See also: 2 Chronicles 20:11Psalms 74:7-8Psalms 83:4My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. See also: Job 21:18Psalms 35:5Isaiah 40:24As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire, See also: Deuteronomy 32:22Malachi 4:1Isaiah 9:18so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm. See also: Job 9:17Psalms 50:3Psalms 58:9Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD. See also: Psalms 6:10Psalms 9:19-20Psalms 132:18Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish; See also: Psalms 35:4Psalms 40:14-15Psalms 35:26that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth. See also: Exodus 6:3Ezekiel 38:23Psalms 59:13
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 82
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Introduction to the chapter
PSALM LXXXII. (DEUS QUIS SIMILIS.)
A prayer against the enemies of God's Church.
Psalms 82:1
Ver. 1. Asaph. This psalm alludes to the wars of David, (2 K. viii. Bert.) against Ammon, (Bos.) or of the Jews returned from captivity, (2 Esd. iv. Ezec. xxxviii.
Theod.) or of the Machabees; (1
Mac. v. and 2 Mac. x. Bell.) or rather of Josaphat. 2 Par. xx. Kimchi. Hammond.
C. --- All in danger are taught to have recourse to God. Bert.
↑ 1Psalms 82:2
Ver. 2. To thee? Heb. "be not silent to thyself." Pagn. --- But domi also implies
"like;" (Bell.) and there would otherwise be a sort of tautology. Bert. --- Christ on earth was like other men: but when he shall come to judgment, non will be comparable to Him. S. Aug. --- Amama says this exposition is groundless: but others are of a contrary opinion. H. --- The ancient Greek interpreters seem not to have varied from the Sept. though S. Jerom adopts the present Heb. "be not silent. Hold, " &c. which may express the utmost fervour and want of protection. Thy own cause is now at stake: the enemy wishes to destroy religion. C.
↑ 2Psalms 82:3
Ver. 3. Noise. Like the boisterous ocean. H. --- Head. To revolt, 4 K. iii. 9. and 2
Par. xx.
↑ 3Psalms 82:4
Ver. 4. Saints. Heb. "hidden ones;" (Prot. H.) the people under God's protection, (M. Bert.) or the treasures of the temple. C.
↑ 4Psalms 82:5
Ver. 5. Nation. That there may be no more of this religion, or Catholics. W. ---
Israel delighted most in being styled the chosen nation of God. Bert.
↑ 5Psalms 82:7
Ver. 7. Agarenes descended from Agar, though they took the name of Saracens, as if they had sprung from Sara, (W.) or they dwelt at Agra, otherwise called Petra, in Arabia; or on the east of Galaad, 1 Par. v. 10. C.
↑ 7Psalms 82:9
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 9. Assyrian, or "Assur," sprung from Dedan, (Gen. xxv. 3.) and dwelt near the Ammonites.
C. --- Come. Heb. "an arm to," &c. H. --- All infidels conspire against Catholics, (W.) and are will to forget their private quarrels. H.
↑ 9Psalms 82:10
Ver. 10. Madian: 120,000 of whom were defeated by Gedeon with 300 men, (H.
Judg. vii.) as Sisara was routed by Debora, at Cisson, and slain by Jahel. ib. iv.
C.
↑ 10Psalms 82:11
Ver. 11. Endor. Near this place the Madianites fell upon one another. --- All their princes of Madian, (C.) or treat all the princes of the people, who now attack us, like them. M. --- Both senses are good. Bert.
↑ 11Psalms 82:15
Ver. 15. Mountains. The prayer or prediction was not in vain. The enemies of Josaphat, (2 Par.
xx. 11. 24. C.) and of David, &c. were destroyed. H. --- The trees on the mountains, (M.) or the mountain itself, might burn like Etna and Vesuvius.
Geneb. --- The destruction of the wicked is thus described. W.
↑ 15Psalms 82:16
Ver. 16. Tempest. During the night, a tempest probably arose, which threw the enemy into confusion, who supposing that the Israelites had broken into the camp, fell upon each other in the dark. C. --- S. Paul reminds us of God's indignation, which Christians as well as Jews ought to dread. Heb. xii. 25. 29.
Deut. iv. 24. Bert.
↑ 16Psalms 82:17
Ver. 17. Name. This was the desire of the prophet; (S. Jer. C. Bert.) and for this end, God sends afflictions. The impenitent must perish for ever, v. 18. W.
↑ 17Psalms 82:19
Ver. 19. Lord. He who is. Ex. iii. 14. and vi. 3. W. --- The name of the Lord is Himself. Bert.
↑ 19License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses