Psalms 105:44
And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et vidit cum tribularentur, et audivit orationem eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἴδεν ἐν τῷ θλίβεσθαι αὐτούς, ἐν τῷ αὐτὸν εἰσακοῦσαι τῆς δεήσεως αὐτῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:44
- וַ֭יַּרְא בַּצַּ֣ר לָהֶ֑ם בְּ֝שָׁמְע֗וֹ אֶת רִנָּתָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVI
31. Nevertheless, God, full of mercy, forsook them not. “And He saw when they were in adversity, when He heard their complaint” ( ver. 44 ). “And He thought upon His covenant, and repented, according to the multitude of His mercies” ( ver. 45 ). He saith, “He repented,” because He changed that wherewith He seemed about to destroy them. With God indeed all things are arranged and fixed; and when He seemeth to act upon sudden motive, He doth nothing but what He foreknew that He should do from eternity; but in the temporal changes of creation, which He ruleth wonderfully, He, without any temporal change in Himself, is said to do by a sudden act of will what in the ordained causes of events He hath arranged in the unchangeableness of His most secret counsel, according to which He doth everything according to defined seasons, doing the present, and having already done the future. …