Psalms 106:30
And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et lætati sunt quia siluerunt ; et deduxit eos in portum voluntatis eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εὐφράνθησαν ὅτι ἡσύχασαν, καὶ ὡδήγησεν αὐτοὺς ἐπιμελίᾳ θελήματος αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 107:30
- וַיִּשְׂמְח֥וּ כִֽי יִשְׁתֹּ֑קוּ וַ֝יַּנְחֵ֗ם אֶל מְח֥וֹז חֶפְצָֽם
Haydock's commentary
For. Even to Jerusalem. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVII
“And they were glad, because they were still, and He brought them into the haven of their desire” ( ver. 30 ). “Let His mercies confess unto the Lord, and His wonders towards the sons of men” ( ver. 31 ). Everywhere, without exception, let not our merits, not our strength, not our wisdom, “confess unto the Lord,” but, “His mercies.” Let Him be loved in every deliverance of ours, who has been invoked in every distress.
St John Damascene An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Concerning the Holy Spirit, a reasoned proof
But should the Jew refuse to accept the Word and the Spirit, let the divine Scripture confute him and curb his tongue. For concerning the Word, the divine David says, For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven . And again, He sent His Word and healed them . But the word that is uttered is not sent, nor is it for ever settled. And concerning the Spirit, the same David says, Thou sendest forth Thy Spirit, they are created . And again, By the word of the Lord were the heavens made: and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth . Job, too, says, The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life . Now the Spirit which is sent and makes and stablishes and conserves, is not mere breath that dissolves, any more than the mouth of God is a bodily member. For the conception of both must be such as harmonizes with the Divine nature.
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).