Psalms 114:6
The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was little and he delivered me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Custodiens parvulos Dominus ; humiliatus sum, et liberavit me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- φυλάσσων τὰ νήπια ὁ κύριος· ἐταπεινώθην, καὶ ἔσωσέν με.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 116:6
- שֹׁמֵ֣ר פְּתָאיִ֣ם יְהֹוָ֑ה דַּ֝לּוֹתִ֗י וְלִ֣י יְהוֹשִֽׁיעַ
Haydock's commentary
Little ones. In their mother's womb, and infancy. (St. Chrysostom)
Hebrew, "the simple." (Berthier)
He delights to protect those who have no dependence on any other. (Calmet)
Humbled. Or afflicted, (Worthington) and "brought low." (St. Jerome)
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 XXXIX
17. “Thou with rebukes hast chastened man for iniquity; Thou hast made my life to consume away like a spider” ( ver. 11 ). There is much that is discerned by this Idithun; by every one who discerns as he does; who overleaps as he does. For he says, that he has fainted in God’s corrections; and would fain have the stroke removed away from him, “because it is He who made him.” Let Him renew me, who also made me; let Him who created me, create me anew. But yet, Brethren, do we suppose that there was no cause for his fainting, so that he wishes to be “renewed,” to be “created anew”? It is “for iniquity,” saith he, “that Thou hast chastened man.” All this, my having fainted, my being weak, my “crying out of the deep,” all of this is because of “iniquity;” and in this Thou hast not condemned, but hast “chastened” me. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXVI
5. “Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful” ( ver. 5 ). He is gracious, righteous, and merciful. Gracious in the first place, because He hath inclined His ear unto me; and I knew not that the ear of God had approached my lips, till I was aroused by those beautiful feet, that I might call upon the Lord’s Name: for who hath called upon Him, save he whom He first called? Hence therefore He is in the first place “gracious;” but “righteous,” because He scourgeth; and again, “merciful,” because He receiveth; for “He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;” nor ought it to be so bitter to me that He scourgeth, as sweet that He receiveth. For how should not “The Lord, who keepeth little ones” ( ver. …