Psalms 108:2
O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Deus, laudem meam ne tacueris, quia os peccatoris et os dolosi super me apertum est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι στόμα ἁμαρτωλοῦ καὶ στόμα δολίου ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ ἠνοίχθη, ἐλάλησαν κατ᾽ ἐμοῦ γλώσσῃ δολίᾳ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 109:2
- כִּ֤י פִ֪י רָשָׁ֡ע וּֽפִי מִ֭רְמָה עָלַ֣י פָּתָ֑חוּ דִּבְּר֥וּ אִ֝תִּ֗י לְשׁ֣וֹן שָֽׁקֶר
Haydock's commentary
Praise. Hebrew, "God of my praise," (Calmet)
whom I always adore, under every dispensation of Providence. (Haydock)
Yet the original may agree with the Vulgate, and Christ desires to be glorified, (John xii. 23., and xvii. 5.; Berthier) and styles his passion, his praise. (Theodoret)
David appeals to God's judgment. (Calmet)
Man. The Pharisees, &c., endeavoured to entangle Christ, Matthew xxii. (Worthington)
Saul's courtiers strove, by calumnies, to excite his rage against David. (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 CIX
3. “They have spoken against me with false tongues” ( ver. 2 ): then chiefly when they praised him as a “good Master” with insidious adulation. Whence it is elsewhere said: “and they that praised me, are sworn together against me.” Next, because they burst into cries, “Crucify Him, crucify Him;” he hath added, “They compassed me about also with words of hatred.” They who with a treacherous tongue spoke words seemingly of love, and not of hatred, “against me,” since they did this insidiously; afterwards “compassed me about with words” not of false and deceitful love, but of open “hatred, and fought against me without a cause.” For as the pious love Christ for nought, so do the wicked hate Him for nought; for as truth is earnestly sought by the best men on its own account, without any advantage, external to itself, in view, so is wickedness sought by the worst men. …