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For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually. See also: Psalms 103:17 Psalms 107:1 Psalms 94:4Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. See also: Proverbs 18:21 Proverbs 6:16-19 Psalms 57:4You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. See also: John 8:44 Jeremiah 9:3-5 2 Timothy 3:4You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. See also: Psalms 120:3 James 3:6-9 1 Samuel 22:18-19God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. See also: Proverbs 2:22 Psalms 27:13 Revelation 21:8The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying, See also: Job 22:19 Psalms 40:3 Psalms 37:34“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.” See also: Jeremiah 17:5 Ecclesiastes 8:8 Psalms 73:18-20But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever. See also: Psalms 92:12-14 Hosea 14:6-8 Psalms 1:3I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints. See also: Lamentations 3:25-26 Psalms 130:5-6 Psalms 73:28

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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 51

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 LI. (QUID GLORIARIS.)

David condemneth the wickedness of Doeg, and foretelleth his destruction.

Psalms 51:2–3

Ver. 2-3. Achimelech. Sixtus V. Sept. &c. read Abimelech. But the former is the true name. See 1 K. xxii. 9. 20. C. --- The word understanding implies, that we ought to reflect on the misery of detraction, and bear our crosses with submission. Bert. --- Doeg was but half a Jew, and persecuted the faithful. W.

--- Iniquity. Heb. chesed, means also mercy, and some translate, "the mercy of God! or, the great mercy." Noble exploit! C. --- But our version seems more natural.

El may be a preposition, as Sym. has Kath. Bert. --- If Doeg, who was the most powerful of the shepherds of Saul, (1 K. xxi. 7.) thought it his duty to give his master information of what had passed, he ought to have stated the matter fairly, instead of insinuating, that the high-priest was ill-affected. H. --- Nothing could be more false, as he supposed he was acting agreeably to the interests of Saul, and of the state. C.

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Psalms 51:6

Ver. 6. Ruin. Sept. katapontismou, "drowning," or to make the innocent suffer

"shipwreck."

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Psalms 51:7

Ver. 7. Thy, is not found in Heb. Doeg would not dare to enter the tabernacle, after he had slain the priests. C. --- Houbigant properly supplies thy. Bert. ---

Living. The Jews inform us, that Doeg slew himself with his master at Gelboe, and that David punished his offspring with death.

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Psalms 51:8

Ver. 8. Laugh, at the last day, when they will have nothing to fear, nor the wicked to hope. In this life, the just are full of compassion; but they cannot but approve of God's judgments. C.

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Psalms 51:9

Ver. 9. The man. Heb. hageber, "the hero."

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Psalms 51:10

Ver. 10. Fruitful. David foretells his own prosperity on the throne, (W.) when this wretch shall be no more. H. --- He was at this time in great perplexity, (C.) in banishment from the house of God. M.

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Psalms 51:11

Ver. 11. It punished the wicked, and asserted thy just providence. H. --- Good.

Thy saints find the greatest comfort in thee. C.

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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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