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Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. See also: 1 Chronicles 16:34Psalms 106:12 Chronicles 7:3Let the redeemed by the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, See also: 1 Peter 1:18-19Luke 1:74Galatians 3:13and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. See also: Psalms 106:47Isaiah 43:5-6Revelation 5:9They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. See also: Deuteronomy 32:10Ezekiel 34:6Ezekiel 34:12Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. See also: Mark 8:2-3Judges 15:18-19Lamentations 2:19Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. See also: Psalms 50:15Psalms 91:15Hebrews 4:15-16He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in. See also: Jeremiah 31:9Psalms 77:20Ezra 8:21-23Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! See also: Psalms 147:1Psalms 107:31Daniel 4:2-3For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good. See also: Matthew 5:6Jeremiah 31:25Psalms 34:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, See also: Luke 1:79Micah 7:8Matthew 4:16because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High. See also: Psalms 106:43Proverbs 1:25Romans 1:28Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help. See also: Psalms 22:11Exodus 5:18-19Luke 15:14-17Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. See also: Psalms 107:28Psalms 107:6Psalms 18:6He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains. See also: Isaiah 42:16Psalms 116:16Ephesians 5:8Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! See also: Psalms 107:21Psalms 116:17-19Psalms 107:8For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut through bars of iron. See also: Isaiah 45:1-2Judges 16:3Micah 2:13Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities. See also: Lamentations 3:39Proverbs 1:22Numbers 11:33-34Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death. See also: Psalms 9:13Psalms 88:3Job 33:19-22Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses. See also: Psalms 78:34-35Psalms 34:4-6Psalms 30:8-12He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves. See also: Matthew 8:8Psalms 103:3-4Psalms 147:15Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! See also: Psalms 107:8Luke 17:18Psalms 66:5Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing. See also: Psalms 50:14Psalms 118:17Psalms 9:11Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters, See also: Psalms 48:7Revelation 18:17Isaiah 42:10these see the LORD’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep. See also: Psalms 95:5Psalms 104:24-27Job 38:8-11For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. See also: Jonah 1:4Matthew 8:24Psalms 148:8They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. See also: Psalms 22:14Psalms 119:28Nahum 2:10They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. See also: Job 12:25Isaiah 19:14Isaiah 19:3Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress. See also: Matthew 8:25Psalms 107:13Psalms 107:19He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. See also: Matthew 8:26Psalms 65:7Luke 8:23-25Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven. See also: John 6:21Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men! See also: Psalms 103:2Psalms 107:8Revelation 15:3Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders. See also: Psalms 22:25Psalms 22:22Psalms 46:10He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground, See also: Isaiah 50:2Isaiah 42:15Amos 4:7-8and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it. See also: Genesis 13:10Genesis 14:3Deuteronomy 29:23-28He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs. See also: Psalms 114:8Isaiah 35:6-7Isaiah 41:17-19There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in, See also: Luke 1:53Psalms 107:7Acts 17:26sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase. See also: 1 Corinthians 3:72 Corinthians 9:10Isaiah 37:30He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease. See also: Exodus 1:7Genesis 12:2Genesis 17:20Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. See also: 2 Kings 10:32Exodus 2:23-242 Chronicles 15:5-6He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste. See also: Job 12:24Job 12:21Daniel 4:33Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock. See also: 1 Samuel 2:8Job 21:111 Samuel 2:21The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths. See also: Job 22:19Psalms 63:11Romans 3:19Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of the LORD. See also: Hosea 14:9Jeremiah 9:12Psalms 64:9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)27 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 106
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 CVI. (CONFITEMINI DOMINO.)
All are invited to give thanks to God for his perpetual providence over men.
Psalms 106:1
Ver. 1. Alleluia. S. Aug. repeats this word. But it occurs in the Heb. &c. at the end of the preceding psalm, of which this is a continuation, shewing how God pardoned his people, and delivered them from captivity, (C.) and mankind from sin. H. Fathers Bert. --- Glory. Lit.
"confess" your sins, thay you may praise God, (Ps. cv. H.) and adore his mercy and providence.
W.
↑ 1Psalms 106:2
Ver. 2. Countries. The Jews from Babylon, and all who were redeemed by Christ. C. --- He was promised immediately after the fall. W.
↑ 2Psalms 106:3
Ver. 3. Sea. Heb. miyam, for which we should read imim "the right," denoting the south. C. ---
But the sea, or ocean, is properly used in the same sense. Bert. --- The Ammonites, Philistines, Syrians, and Idumeans, from these four quarters, often reduced the Israelites to servitude, under the judges. Houbig. --- From all parts, the Jews of the ten tribes returned in the reigns of Darius and Alexander.
C. Diss. --- But the texts which are applied to this event speak rather of the conversion of the Gentiles, which the prophet has here in view. Bert. --- None are excluded from the benefits of this redemption, but by their own fault. W.
↑ 3Psalms 106:4
Ver. 4. Habitation. So were the Jews distressed at Babylon, (C.) as many are forced to wander in the world, and all are involved in sin. W.
↑ 4Psalms 106:5
Ver. 5. Hungry. As both Jews and Gentiles were for the word of God, (Amos viii.
11.) when Christ appeared. H. --- Their wants cried aloud, (S. Aug.) though they sought him not. Isai. lxv.
1. Bert. --- Those who call upon God are relieved by him, in the manner which is most for their welfare. W.
↑ 5Psalms 106:8
Ver. 8. Mercies. We are unworthy to open our mouths. This chorus is repeated, (v. 15. 21. 31.) by the people, after the Levites had sung the intermediate sentences. C. --- The v. 6. 9. 13. 19. are of the same nature, and refer to different sorts of calamities. Bert. --- All the benefits of God, proceeding from his mercy, and not from man's deserts, praise him. W.
↑ 8Psalms 106:10
Ver. 10. Darkness. This second allegory represents the condition of the captives, and of mankind, before Christ's coming. C. --- The former enjoyed some liberty, Jer. xxix. 5. --- But the latter were most miserable, (Matt. ix. 15.
Lu. iv. 18.) and of these the words are most naturally explained. Bert.
↑ 10Psalms 106:11
Ver. 11. Exasperated. Heb. "changed, or frustrated." This is the source of all misery, (C.) as calamities are commonly inflicted on account of sin. W.
↑ 11Psalms 106:12
Ver. 12. Labours. There were slaves of various descriptions: some were confined to hard labour, and chained down at night. C.
↑ 12Psalms 106:14
Ver. 14. Bonds. Of their passions. See S. Aug. Conf. viii. 11. H.
↑ 14Psalms 106:17
Ver. 17. Iniquity. Making them alter their conduct. Hebrew seems less correct:
"they are foolish on account of their way, and they," &c. Illness is sent to punish sin. Job xxxiii. 19. Matt. ix. 2.
Jo. v. 14. C.
↑ 17Psalms 106:20
Ver. 20. Word. Jesus Christ, according to the prophetical sense, adopted by the Fathers, (S. Atha.
or. 3. &c.) though it literally implies, that at God's command the sick were healed. Matt. viii. 7.
--- This allegory again represents the state of captivity. C.
↑ 20Psalms 106:22
Ver. 22. Praise. Instead of victims. Ps. xxvi. &c.
↑ 22Psalms 106:23
Ver. 23. Down to the sea, &c. Captivity is here compared to a tempest. C. ---
The apostles carry the tidings of salvation to all places. Persecutions are raised; but God grants peace to his Church under Constantine. Euseb.
↑ 23Psalms 106:24
Ver. 24. Deep. The fury of tempests. Various nations, and the treasures of the deep. M.
↑ 24Psalms 106:26
Ver. 26. Heavens. So Virgil says:
Tollimur in cælum curvato gurgite & iidem
Subductâ ad Manes imos descendimus undâ. Æn. iii.
↑ 26Psalms 106:27
Ver. 27. Up. They knew not how to proceed. Ambiguis ars stupet ipsa malis. C.
↑ 27Psalms 106:29
Ver. 29. Breeze. Heb. "silence, or calm."
↑ 29Psalms 106:30
Ver. 30. For. Even to Jerusalem. C.
↑ 30Psalms 106:31
Ver. 31. Men. We must thank God for having enabled us to repent, v. 8. W.
↑ 31Psalms 106:33
Ver. 33. Wilderness. God caused his people to pass through the Red Sea, and the Jordan, to possess the fruitful country of Chanaan, part of which had been cursed for the crimes of the Sodomites. H. --- He has punished Babylon, (Jer.
xxv. 12.) made a straight road from his people, (Is. xxxv. 8.) and enabled them to cultivate their country again, v. 41. C. --- The synagogue has been abandoned, and the Church chosen. Bert. --- The power of God is displayed, who caused the land of promise to be more fertile for his people, which is now very barren. W.
↑ 33Psalms 106:34
Ver. 34. Barrenness. Or "saltness." H. --- He alludes to the environs of Sodom.
Gen. xiii. 10.
and xix. 24. W.
↑ 34Psalms 106:37
Ver. 37. Of birth. A plentiful crop, facient fruges germina. S. Jer. C. ---
Abundance of fruit shall grow in some places, while others are punished on account of sin. W.
↑ 37Psalms 106:40
Ver. 40. Princes. Jochonias was humbled, (H.) and exalted, with Daniel, &c. 4 K.
xxv. 27.
Others explain it of Nabuchodonosor and Baltasar, who were reduced to the state of ignominy and death. C. --- The Jews experienced the greatest miseries at the last siege of Jerusalem. Bert.
↑ 40Psalms 106:41
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 41. Sheep. The Gentiles took the place of the obstinate Jews. S. Aug.
↑ 41Psalms 106:42
Ver. 42. Mouth. The psalmist saw Babylon before its ruin, (C.) at least in spirit.
God's judgment strengthen virtue, and repress the wicked. H. The propagation of the gospel put to silence the oracles of the pagans. Bert.
↑ 42Psalms 106:43
Ver. 43. Lord. This is the part of wisdom, and deserves our serious consideration, (H.) as Osee (xiv. 10.) and our Saviour admonish. Matt. xi. 15.
and xiii. 9. Mar. iv. 9. &c.
↑ 43License: 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