Psalms 110:4
He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a merciful and gracious Lord:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Memoriam fecit mirabilium suorum, misericors et miserator Dominus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μνείαν ἐποιήσατο τῶν θαυμασίων αὐτοῦ, ἐλεήμων καὶ οἰκτίρμων ὁ κύριος·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 111:4
- זֵ֣כֶר עָ֭שָׂה לְנִפְלְאֹתָ֑יו חַנּ֖וּן וְרַח֣וּם יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Remembrance. He has delivered us from captivity, as he did our ancestors from the Egyptians bondage, Isaias lxiii. 11. (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 CXI
4. “He hath made His wonderful works to be remembered” ( ver. 4 ): by abasing this man, exalting that. Reserving unusual miracles for a fit season, that thus human weakness, intent upon novelty, may remember them, although His daily miracles be greater. He created so many trees throughout the whole earth, and no one wondereth: He dried up one with a word, and the hearts of mortals were thunderstruck. For that miracle, which hath not through its frequency become common, will cling most firmly to the heart. But of what use were the miracles, save that He might be feared? What too would fear profit, unless “the gracious and merciful Lord” gave “meat unto them that fear Him”? ( ver. 5 ); meat that doth not spoil, “bread that cometh down from heaven,” which He gave to no deservings of ours. …