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A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, Most High, See also: Psalms 147:1Psalms 107:1Psalms 107:21-22to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night, See also: Lamentations 3:22-23Psalms 89:1-2John 1:17with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre. See also: Psalms 33:22 Chronicles 23:5Nehemiah 12:27For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands. See also: 2 Corinthians 2:14Psalms 8:6Psalms 126:3How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep. See also: Romans 11:33-34Isaiah 55:8-9Psalms 40:5A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this: See also: 1 Corinthians 2:14Psalms 73:22Psalms 94:8though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever. See also: Psalms 37:38Psalms 73:18-201 Peter 1:24But you, LORD, are on high forever more. See also: Psalms 83:18Exodus 18:11Acts 12:22-24For behold, your enemies, LORD, for behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered. See also: Psalms 37:20Psalms 89:10Matthew 7:23But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil. See also: Psalms 23:5Psalms 89:17Psalms 45:7My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me. See also: Psalms 91:8Psalms 54:7Psalms 59:10The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. See also: Jeremiah 17:8Psalms 1:3Psalms 104:16They are planted in the LORD’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts. See also: 2 Peter 3:18Ephesians 3:17Isaiah 61:3They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, See also: Isaiah 46:4Jeremiah 17:8Psalms 71:18to show that the LORD is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. See also: Psalms 18:2Romans 9:14Psalms 62:6
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 91
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 XCI. (BONUM EST CONFITERI.)
God is to be praised for his wondrous works.
Psalms 91:1
Ver. 1. Day. The Jews say, that Adam sung this at his creation, (Chal.) or that it refers to the reign of the Messias, which shall lost one thousand years after this world is ended. Kimchi. ---
Others think it is a thanksgiving after the defeat of Sennacherib, (Ven. Bede.) or Absalom.
Ferrand. --- It might be sung by the sons of Moses, who expected to be shortly delivered from Babylon, (C.) or by the people on the sabbath, (Bert.) though many of the Fathers think, that this word denotes "the repose of the life to come." The occasion or author of this psalm cannot be clearly ascertained. C.
--- When we enjoy rest from labour, we ought particularly to praise God's works. W.
↑ 1Psalms 91:2
Ver. 2. Praise. Lit. "to confess," (H.) as we must be free from sin before we can worthily proclaim God's praises. Euseb. S. Jer. --- But here to confess means to praise, (C.) or give thanks. W.
↑ 2Psalms 91:3
Ver. 3. Night. Of adversity, and at all times, (Bert.) as well as in prosperity. W. ---
Morning and evening prayer must not be neglected. H. --- These times were particularly pointed out. Ps. liv.
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↑ 3Psalms 91:4
Ver. 4. Strings, upon. Heb. "on the hasor, and on the nabel, on the higaion with the cinnor." Yet the ten stringed instrument seems to have been the same with the psaltery, or nobol. H. ---
Bellarmin thinks and is redundant, and was not in the copies of the Sept. or it is only explanatory, as we know that the psaltery had ten strings. Ps. xxxii. 2.
and cxliii. 9. M. --- The matter is of small consequence. Bert. --- Eusebius seems to insinuate, that instruments were not used in the Church of his time.
C. --- The observance of the commandments, and mortification, signified by the harp are requisite. W.
↑ 4Psalms 91:5
Ver. 5. Rejoice. Admiring thy providence, (C.) or the Messias. "What are all things compared with thee, O Lord!" S. Aug. Conf. x. 4.
↑ 5Psalms 91:6
Ver. 6. Deep. We cannot easily explain thy ways, (M.) in exalting some, and depressing thy people. C. Rom. xi. 33.
↑ 6Psalms 91:7
Ver. 7. Things. Pretended sages hence take occasion to blaspheme whatsoever things they know not. Jude 10. The wise adore God in silence, (H.) and confess, that the misery of the just here proves a future life, while the wicked prosper, to be more tormented. Euseb. --- Carnal men, who think only of present things, see not this. M.
↑ 7Psalms 91:8
Ver. 8. Appear. Heb. "flourish." Still they are but as grass, (H.) short-lived, and of small utility.
The just resembles the palm-tree, v. 13. C.
↑ 8Psalms 91:10
Ver. 10. Enemies. The Babylonians, (C.) or all the wicked at the last day. Bert.
--- This shews God's power, and insures the exaltation of the just. M.
↑ 10Psalms 91:11
Ver. 11. Mercy. Heb. and some copies of the Sept. have "oil," an emblem of mercy. Prov. xxi.
20. Bert. --- "I shall be anointed with fresh oil." Prot. --- "My old age shall be like a verdant olive." Houbig. Sym. --- Those who have a good conscience, expect final happiness. W.
↑ 11Psalms 91:12
Ver. 12. Me. I shall live to hear of the vengeance which God will take. Ps. cxi. 9.
C. --- The just pray for sinners here; but must approve of God's judgment. Bert.
↑ 12Psalms 91:13
Ver. 13. Palm-tree. Sept. phoinix, means also a "Phœnician, or the Phœnix"
bird, of which the ancients have said so much, Job xxix. 18. (C.) and of which Tertullian, (de Res. xiii.) and S.
Ambrose, (de fid. Res.) seem to understand this passage. Amama. --- But it must be explained in the sense of the Vulg. as the Heb. Tamar evinceth. This tree, and the cedar, were the most famous in those countries; the former for its fruit, and the latter for buildings and duration. The palm-tree will shoot forth again, after it has been cut down or burnt, (Pliny xiii. 14.) so the just will rise up from oppression. C.
↑ 13Psalms 91:14
Ver. 14. Courts. In the Church triumphant, as well as in the militant. W. --- The piety of the faithful induces strangers to embrace the truth. Bert.
↑ 14Psalms 91:15
Ver. 15. Well treated. Or affected. W. --- Bene patientes, eupathountes,
"flourishing," (Grot.) tranquil, (S. Aug.) or in a prosperous condition. Bert. ---
Erasmus, to shew the utility of consulting the originals, informs us, what a multiplicity of authors he consulted in vain, to know the import of this word.
Amama. --- "They shall be fat and covered with leaves," (S. Jer.) alluding to the aforesaid comparison.
↑ 15Psalms 91:16
Ver. 16. In him. The general judgment will set this in the clearest light. At present, the ways of Providence may be mysterious, v. 6. H.
↑ 16License: 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