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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? See also: Job 13:24 Lamentations 5:20 Psalms 89:46How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me? See also: Micah 7:8-10 Jeremiah 8:18 Jeremiah 15:18Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death; See also: Ezra 9:8 Psalms 18:28 Jeremiah 51:39lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall. See also: Psalms 25:2 Jeremiah 1:19 Proverbs 12:3But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation. See also: Isaiah 12:2 Jude 1:21 Habakkuk 3:18I will sing to the LORD, because he has been good to me. See also: Psalms 116:7 Psalms 21:13 Psalms 119:7

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)5 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 12

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

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PSALM XII. (USQUEQUO DOMINE.)

A prayer in tribulation.

Psalms 12:1

Ver. 1. Me? These expressions are figurative. God seems displeased: but it is often for our greater good. Some explain this of David, Ezechias, the captives,

&c. It may be applied to every afflicted soul, which places her whole trust in God. C.

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Psalms 12:2

Ver. 2. Day; frequently. W. --- Sept. adds, "and night." C. --- These cares and perplexities arise from persecutions and from man's weakness. W.

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Psalms 12:3

Ver. 3. Enemy; Saul, &c. or the devil. S. Aug. C.

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Psalms 12:4

Ver. 4. Death, by mortal sin, (W.) or through excessive sorrow. Jer. li. 39. Shew me thy favour, (C.) and I shall be secure. Sleep is represented as nearly related to death. Iliad xiv.

Tum consanguineus lethi sopor. Æn. vi. H.

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Psalms 12:7

Ver. 7. Mercy. Man must attribute nothing to himself, otherwise he will be moved by pride. S.

Aug. C. --- Things; patience and reward. W. --- The prophet feels a secret confidence arising in his breast, in consequence of God's protection. --- Yea,

&c. is not in Heb. but it is in the Sept.

Arab. and the ancient Fathers. Heb. "My heart shall be transported in thy salvation; I will praise the Lord, because he has rendered me the like," as I placed my hopes in him: (C.) or, "he hath rewarded me." The blessed Virgin adopts the language of this verse, and the prophet probably had the same salvation, Christ, in view. Berthier.

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License: 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

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