Psalms 106:8
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Confiteantur Domino misericordiæ ejus, et mirabilia ejus filiis hominum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξομολογησάσθωσαν τῷ κυρίῳ τὰ ἐλέη αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ θαυμάσια αὐτοῦ τοῖς υἱοῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 107:8
- יוֹד֣וּ לַיהוָ֣ה חַסְדּ֑וֹ וְ֝נִפְלְאוֹתָ֗יו לִבְנֵ֥י אָדָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Mercies. We are unworthy to open our mouths. This chorus is repeated, (ver. 15, 21, 31.) by the people, after the Levites had sung the intermediate sentences. (Calmet)
The ver. 6, 13, 19., are of the same nature, and refer to different sorts of calamities. (Berthier)
All the benefits of God, proceeding from his mercy, and not from man's deserts, praise him. (Worthington)
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
4. “They wandered in the wilderness, in a dry place, they found not the way of a city to dwell in” ( ver. 4 ). We have heard a wretched wandering; what of want? “Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them” ( ver. 5 ). But wherefore did it faint? for what good? For God is not cruel, but He maketh Himself known, in that it is expedient for us, that He be entreated by us fainting, and that aiding us He be loved. And therefore after this wandering, and hunger, and thirst, “And they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distress” ( ver. 6 ). And what did He for them, as they were wandering? “And He led them in the right way” ( ver. 7 ). …