Holy Scripture

Psalms 106:39

A church father on this verse
“But what is it that follows? "And the land was slain with bloods." We might suppose that this was a mistake of the writer, and that he had written interfecta for infecta, were it not for the goodness of God, who has willed His Scriptures to be written in many languages; were it not that we see it written as in the tex…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 106

Source: Septuagint

Original

39Again they become few, and are brought low, By the pressure of evils and pain.

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In context

37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, And they yield fruit of increase.

38And he blesses them, and they multiply exceedingly, And he diminishes not the number of their cattle.

— Psalms 106:39 —

40Contempt is poured upon their princes, And he causes them to wander in a desert and trackless land.

41But he helps the poor out of poverty, And makes him families as a flock.

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