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Psalm 69:23 (WEB)
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

Fathers and councils · 6

Augustine of Hippo, Concerning Faith of Things Not Seen Chapter 9
“…table become a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumbling-block: let their eyes be darkened that they see not, and ever bow Thou down their back.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 21–23
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 69
““Let the table of them be made in their own presence for a trap” (ver. 23).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 74
“For by giving heed to earth they have been darkened, concerning whom there is said in another Psalm, “Let their eyes be blinded, that they see not, and their back ever bow Thou down.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 23.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVII.19Book XVII
“…their table become a trap before them, and a retribution, and an offence: let their eyes be dimmed that they see not, and their back be always bowed down,” etc. Which things are not spoken as wished for, but are predicted under the prophetic form of wishing.” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 22, 23.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVIII.46Book XVIII
“Let their eyes be darkened lest they see, and bow down their back alway.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 22, 23; Rom. xi. 9, 10.
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Tertullian, To His Wife II.1Book II
“And thus my mind has been thrown into confusion, in the fear that, having exhorted you myself to perseverance in single husbandhood and widowhood, I may now, by the mention of precipitate marriages, put “an occasion of falling” in your way.” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 23 (according to the “Great Bible” version, ed. 1539. This is the translation found in the “Book of Common Prayer”). Comp. Rom. xiv. 13.
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