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A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, LORD. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me. See also: Psalms 71:2Psalms 140:6Psalms 31:1Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:20Job 25:4Romans 3:20For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead. See also: Lamentations 3:6Psalms 7:5Psalms 7:1-2Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate. See also: Psalms 142:3Psalms 77:3Psalms 102:3-4I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands. See also: Psalms 77:10-12Psalms 77:5-6Psalms 111:4I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah. See also: Psalms 63:1Job 11:13Psalms 84:2Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit. See also: Psalms 69:17Psalms 28:1Psalms 27:9Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you. See also: Psalms 25:4-5Proverbs 3:5-6Psalms 32:8Deliver me, LORD, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me. See also: Proverbs 18:10Psalms 61:3-4Psalms 142:5Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness. See also: Psalms 25:4-5John 14:26Hebrews 13:21Revive me, LORD, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble. See also: Psalms 31:1Ephesians 2:4-5Psalms 71:2In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am your servant. See also: Psalms 54:5Psalms 116:16Psalms 119:94
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 142
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 CXLII. (DOMINE EXAUDI.)
The psalmist in tribulation calleth upon God for his delivery. The seventh penitential psalm.
Psalms 142:1
Ver. 1. Absalom is not specified in Rom. Sept. &c. (C.) though it be in other copies. H. --- The latter part of the title has been added by the Greeks. S. Hil. ---
If David composed the psalm, on occasion of his son's revolt, he considered it as a punishment of his former transgression. The Fathers explain it of Jesus Christ, who suffered for our sins. Bert. --- It might also relate to the captives, (Ferrand) or to the same event as the preceding psalm, (Bossuet) though there is no reason for abandoning the title. C. --- Justice. Or mercy. S. Chrys. ---
Absalom had no just cause of complaint, (H.) and God had promised to protect David on the throne.
↑ 1Psalms 142:2
Ver. 2. Justified. Compared with thee, (C.) and without mercy. God is bound by his promise to hear the penitent. W. --- David and S. Paul had been assured of the remission of their sins, yet never ceased to beg for pardon. Bert.
↑ 2Psalms 142:3
Ver. 3. Of old. Lit. "of an age," (H.) who are quite forgotten. Lam. iii. 6. C. --- The devil had violently tempted me, by means of temporal and spiritual calamities.
W. --- The greatest darkness is that of the heart. Ephes. iv. 17. H.
↑ 3Psalms 142:4
Ver. 4. Troubled. David knew not what course to take. 1 K. xv. 25. 31. Our Saviour was in the greatest agony. C.
↑ 4Psalms 142:5
Ver. 5. Of old. What God had done formerly for me and others. W. --- The sacred records of 3,000 years tended to raise the hopes of David. Bert.
↑ 5Psalms 142:6
Ver. 6. Water. We can add nothing to this idea. C. --- Man can do no good without God's grace, which David implores with his hands stretched out, both to mortify himself, and to denote fervour. W.
↑ 6Psalms 142:7
Ver. 7. Pit. Or "lake," meaning (H.) the grave. C. --- If man be left to himself, he will presently yield to sin, from which he will not be delivered without God's grace.
↑ 7Psalms 142:8
Ver. 8. Morning. At the first assault of temptation, (W.) or speedily. David might address this prayer to God during the night, after he left Jerusalem. He was only relieved the next day, when his troops had crossed the Jordan,. 2 K. xvii.
12. --- To thee. With the most ardent desire. Jer.
xxii. 27. This might suit the captives, v. 5. 11. C.
↑ 8Psalms 142:9
Ver. 9. Fled. Heb. "To thee I have hidden myself," (Mont.) or "am protected." S.
Jer. --- But the Sept. seem to have read better, ésithi. "I have hoped." Chal.
↑ 9Psalms 142:10
Ver. 10. Spirit. I look for a favourable wind, like one at sea, in danger of suffering shipwreck, and I apply to God, to the Holy Ghost the Comforter. ---
Right. Even (C.) and not like this country, full of precipices. In Judea the right worship was observed. H. --- The penitent may rest assured, that God will free him from all perils, (W.) and bring him (Heb.) "into the land of rectitude," which is heaven. The Holy Ghost is here represented as a distinct person. Bert.
↑ 10Psalms 142:12
Ver. 12. Mercy. Towards me. Justice required that the rebels should be punished, as they were, even contrary to David's intention. 1 K. xviii. 5. C.
↑ 12License: 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