Psalms 116:2
For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia ejus, et veritas Domini manet in æternum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ἐκραταιώθη τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ ἐφ᾽ ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ κυρίου μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 117:2
- כִּ֥י גָ֘בַ֤ר עָלֵ֨ינוּ חַסְדּ֗וֹ וֶֽאֱמֶת יְהוָ֥ה לְעוֹלָ֗ם הַֽלְלוּ יָֽהּ
Haydock's commentary
Remaineth is not in Hebrew. Mercy and truth confirm us. (Haydock)
The psalmist acknowledges that he also stands in need of them, and St. John assures us, that grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. [John i. 17.] (Berthier)
No promise had been made to the Gentiles (Worthington) by the law; though they were all included in the original promise, Genesis iii. 15. (Haydock)
God hath withdrawn them from idolatry, to impart to them his mercies. (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 CXVII
1. “O praise the Lord, all ye heathen: praise Him, all ye nations” ( ver. 1 ). These are the courts of the Lord’s house, this all His people, this the true Jerusalem. Let those rather listen who have refused to be the children of this city, since they have cut themselves off from the communion of all nations. “For His merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever” ( ver. 2 ). These are those two things, loving-kindness and truth, which in the CXV th Psalm I admonished you should be committed to memory. But “the merciful kindness of the Lord is ever more and more towards us,” since the furious tongues of hostile nations have yielded to His Name, through which we have been freed: “and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever,” whether in those things which He promised to the righteous, or in those which He hath threatened to the ungodly.