Psalms 113:17
The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Domus Israël speravit in Domino ; adjutor eorum et protector eorum est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἶκος Ἰσραὴλ ἤλπισεν ἐπὶ Κύριον· βοηθὸς αὐτῶν καὶ ὑπερασπιστὴς αὐτῶν ἐστιν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 115:9
- יִ֭שְׂרָאֵל בְּטַ֣ח בַּיהוָ֑ה עֶזְרָ֖ם וּמָגִנָּ֣ם הֽוּא
Haydock's commentary
The house, is not now in Hebrew. But it occurs in the parallel passage, (Psalm cxxxiv.) where the imperative is used, as the Hebrew is here pointed. (Calmet)
"Israel trusts....house of Aaron, trust ye in the Lord," (Montanus) which is much in favour of this text, though St. Jerome, &c., agree with the Septuagint. (Calmet)
Houbigant rejects the Hebrew reading, and the house of Israel occurs, ver. 12(20). (Berthier)
All the people, the priests, and converts from paganism, are invited to praise the Lord. (St. Chrysostom) (Acts ii. 5., and x. 2., and xiii. 16.) (Calmet)
The Church always comprised two distinct orders, the clergy and the laity. (Menochius)
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 CXV
8. The result that ensueth is that described in the next verse: “They that make them are like unto them, and so are all such as put their trust in them” ( ver. 8 ). Let them therefore see with open eyes, and worship with shut and dead understandings, idols that neither see nor live. “But the house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord” ( ver. 9 ). “For hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.” But that this patience may endure to the end, “He is their helper and defender.” Do perhaps spiritual persons (by whom carnal minds are built up in “the spirit of meekness,” because they pray as higher for lower minds) already see, and is that already to them reality which to the lower is hope? It is not so. For even “the house of Aaron hath hope in the Lord” ( ver. 10 ). …