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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph! See also: Psalms 98:4Psalms 106:47Jeremiah 31:7For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth. See also: Psalms 95:3Psalms 99:3Malachi 1:14He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet. See also: Psalms 18:471 Corinthians 15:25Psalms 81:14He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. See also: 1 Peter 1:4Amos 6:8Nahum 2:2God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. See also: Psalms 68:33Psalms 78:651 Thessalonians 4:16Sing praises to God! Sing praises! Sing praises to our King! Sing praises! See also: Isaiah 12:4-6Matthew 25:34Psalms 117:1-2For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. See also: Zechariah 14:9Colossians 3:16Psalms 47:8God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne. See also: 1 Chronicles 16:31Revelation 19:6Psalms 93:1The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted! See also: Psalms 89:18Genesis 49:10Psalms 72:7-9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 46
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 XLVI. (OMNES GENTES PLAUDITE.)
The Gentiles are invited to praise God for the establishment of the kingdom of Christ.
This psalm appears to be a sequel to the former psalm, and is addressed to the Gentiles who were present at the dedication of the second temple, as Darius had ordered his governors to assist the Jews. 1 Esd. vi. 15. See Esth.
viii. 17. --- Many explain it of the translation of the ark: but the Fathers behold the establishment of Christianity, and the ascension of Christ, v. 6. C.
Psalms 46:4
Ver. 4. Feet. The Chanaanites were subdued by Josue, and others by David,
&c. The army of Cambyses became a prey to the Jews. Ezec. xxxix. 10. C. ---
All who embrace the true faith, even kings, become subjects, and not heads of the Church. W.
↑ 4Psalms 46:5
Ver. 5. Beauty. The temple. Ezec. xxiv. 21. Both Jews and Gentiles form the Church.
↑ 5Psalms 46:6
Ver. 6. Trumpet. Christ ascended, accompanied by choirs of angels. His apostles proclaimed his truths. C. --- They were not left desolate, but joyful; having the Paraclete sent the them.
↑ 6Psalms 46:7
Ver. 7. King. Christ is God, by his divine nature, and our king, by his humanity.
W.
↑ 7Psalms 46:8
Ver. 8. Wisely. Heb. mascil, which is so often rendered "understanding" in the titles. No one can do well, what he does not understand. C. --- The union of faith and good works, is singing wisely. S. Chrys. C. --- Concordent manus & lingua. S. Aug. D. --- Let each strive to know the mysteries of faith. W.
↑ 8Psalms 46:9
Ver. 9. Throne. Christ reigns over the heart with all power. Matt. xxviii. 18.
↑ 9Psalms 46:10
Ver. 10. Gods. Judges appointed by the king of Persia over the Jews, &c. (C.) or rather the apostles, who were more than men, (S. Jer.) and exercised a greater power than any earthly monarch. C. --- The richest princes have submitted to the God of Abraham, whose seed was to prove a blessing to all.
Gen. xviii. 18. Heb. as it is now pointed, "the princes of the people are gathered unto the people of the God of Abraham, for He is far elevated above the gods the shields of the earth," as kings are often styled. C. --- Prot. "for the shields of the earth belong unto God: He is greatly exalted;" or (Sept.) "the earthly potentates, who are of God, have been," &c. --- We might explain the Vulg. in the same sense, if Dei were substituted for Dii, (H.) as it should be. C.
--- Dei sunt optimates terræ, & ipse summe elevatus est. Houbig. --- S. Jer.
agrees with the Vulg.
(H.) which is the clearest, (Bert.) only he renders ham, "the people" of the God, as it may also signify, and retains the word shields, which we explain the strong gods, or the "strong ones of God." H. --- The blessed Trinity is not divided, but more distinctly professed in baptism than it was under the law. W.
↑ 10License: 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