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A Song. A Psalm by David. My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul. See also: Psalms 57:7-11Psalms 145:21Psalms 104:33Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn. See also: Psalms 69:30Psalms 81:2Psalms 57:8I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations. I will sing praises to you among the peoples. See also: Psalms 22:22Psalms 22:27Zephaniah 3:14For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. See also: Psalms 36:5Ephesians 2:4-7Psalms 103:11Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth. See also: Psalms 57:5Matthew 6:9-10Psalms 148:13That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us. See also: 2 Chronicles 32:20-22Psalms 60:5-12Deuteronomy 33:12God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. See also: 1 Peter 1:8Joshua 20:72 Peter 1:3-4Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter. See also: Genesis 49:10Psalms 122:51 Samuel 28:4Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia.” See also: John 13:8Ruth 4:7-8John 13:14Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? See also: Isaiah 63:1-6Psalms 20:6-8Obadiah 1:3-4Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies. See also: 2 Chronicles 13:12Psalms 44:91 Samuel 29:1-11Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain. See also: Jeremiah 17:5-8Psalms 146:3-5Isaiah 2:22Through God, we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our enemies. See also: Psalms 118:6-13Psalms 60:12Isaiah 63:3
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)6 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 107
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 CVII. (PARATUM COR MEUS.)
The prophet praiseth God for benefits received.
Psalms 107:1
Ver. 1. Himself. By repeating here what occurs in Ps. lvi. and lix. David teaches us to excite our fervour by such sentiments as have formerly made an impression upon us. Bert. --- He spoke before of his own victories: now he considers those of Christ, and of his Church, (Geneb.) as well as the state of the captives. Theod. C.
↑ 1Psalms 107:2
Ver. 2. My heart, &c. Is not repeated in Heb. But it is, Ps. lvi. 8.
↑ 2Psalms 107:3
Ver. 3. Arise, my glory. Is found also in this psalm, though not here in Heb. &c.
S. Jerom (ad Sun.) thinks some copyist has inserted it. C. --- But it seems to be here in its proper place. Bert.
↑ 3Psalms 107:4
Ver. 4. Nations. David made various conquests, which prefigured those of Christ, to whom the rest of the psalm belongs. S. Aug. W.
↑ 4Psalms 107:7
Ver. 7. That. See Ps. lix. 7. W.
↑ 7Psalms 107:8
Ver. 8. Holiness. Or holy one, sancto: (H.) meaning Jeremias xxv. 11. who foretold the end of the captivity, (C.) or David himself, and the Messias, his son, in whom he will rejoice. H.
↑ 8License: 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