Psalms 108:21
But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et tu, Domine, Domine, fac mecum propter nomen tuum, quia suavis est misericordia tua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ σύ, Κύριε κύριε, ποίησον μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἔλεος ἕνεκα τοῦ ὀνόματός σου, ὅτι χρηστὸν τὸ ἔλεός σου, ῥῦσαί με·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 109:21
- וְאַתָּ֤ה יְה֘וִ֤ה אֲדֹנָ֗י עֲֽשֵׂה אִ֭תִּי לְמַ֣עַן שְׁמֶ֑ךָ כִּי ט֥וֹב חַ֝סְדְּךָ֗ הַצִּילֵֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
With me. Many ancient psalters supply, "thy mercy," with the Arabic. (Calmet)
Grace must always accompany our endeavours, 1 Corinthians xv. 10. (Berthier)
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
21. “O deliver me, for I am needy and poor” ( ver. 21 ). Need and poverty is that weakness, through which He was crucified. “And my heart is disturbed within me.” This alludeth to those words which He spoke when His Passion was drawing near, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.”
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 1:11-14
This he adds in immediate connection. And why? Because it would serve to give those who heard it full assurance. Were it for our sake only, he means to say, that God did this, there might be some room for misgiving. But if it be for His own sake, and in order to display His goodness, he assigns, as a sort of witness, a reason why these things never possibly could be otherwise. We find the same language everywhere applied to the case of the Israelites. “Do Thou this for us for Thy Name’s sake;” ( Ps. cix. 21 .) and again, God Himself said, “I do it for Mine own sake;” ( Isa. xlviii. 11 .) and so Moses, “Do it, if for nothing else, yet for the glory of Thy Name.” This gives those who hear it full assurance; it relieves them to be told, that whatever He promises, for His own goodness’ sake He will most surely perform.