George Leo Haydock, on Ps 138:20

“Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.”

“Because you say in thought, &c. Depart from me, ye wicked, who plot against the servants of God, and think to cast them out of the cities of their habitation; as if they had received them in vain, and to no purpose. (Challoner) — Thy cities. Sixtus V, &c., read “their.” (Calmet) — Schismatics, and all innovators, endeavour to withdraw all their dependencies from the truth; (St. Augustine) and infidels wish to prevent the propagation of the gospel. (Berthier) — The enemies of Nehemias, &c., may be here meant, 2 Esdras iv. 2. (Calmet) — Depart from me, all you who would represent the felicity of heaven to be a dream. (Worthington)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.