Psalm 9:6 (WEB)
The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
Fathers and councils · 6
Eusebius of Caesarea
“And again: ‘Their memorial is perished with a sound’ and ‘their name hast thou blotted out forever and ever’; for when they also were in trouble they ‘cried out and there was none to save: unto the Lord, and he heard them not.’” — editor's note: Psa. ix. 6. Eusebius agrees with the LXX in reading μετ᾽ ἤχου: “with a sound.”
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Augustine of Hippo
““The swords of the enemy have failed at the end” (ver. 6).” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“As to the foes of the truth I cry with the prophet, “Their memorial is perished with a noise, but the Lord shall endure for ever.”” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 6, 7, lxx.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Have they not read,” “The swords of the enemy have come to an end, and thou hast destroyed the cities?”” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 6.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Thou didst suffer wrong there whilst thou wast fighting with the clay (that is, this troublesome and filthy body) and wast building cities foreign and unsafe, whose memorial perishes with a cry.” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 6.
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Jerome
“The Psalmist fully possessed by God sings,“The swords of the enemy are come to an end, and the cities which thou hast overthrown.”” — editor's note: Ps. ix. 6. Sept. Vulg. Syr.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Letters Letter 134.
Cited together in Letters Letter 134.