Psalms 117:5
In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- De tribulatione invocavi Dominum, et exaudivit me in latitudine Dominus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν θλίψει ἐπεκαλεσάμην τὸν κύριον, καὶ ἐπήκουσέν μοι εἰς πλατυσμόν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 118:5
- מִֽן הַ֭מֵּצַ֥ר קָרָ֣אתִי יָּ֑הּ עָנָ֖נִי בַמֶּרְחָ֣ב יָֽהּ
Haydock's commentary
Trouble. Both spiritual and temporal. (Worthington)
Enlarge me, or set me at liberty in a spacious place. (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 CXVIII
2. “Let Israel now confess that He is good, and that His mercy endureth for ever” ( ver. 2 ). “Let the house of Aaron now confess that His mercy endureth for ever” ( ver. 3 ). “Yea, let all now that fear the Lord confess that His mercy endureth for ever” ( ver. 4 ). Ye remember, I suppose, most beloved, what is the house of Israel, what is the house of Aaron, and that both are those that fear the Lord. For they are “the little and the great,” who have already in another Psalm been happily introduced into your hearts: in the number of whom all of us should rejoice that we are joined together, in His grace who is good, and whose mercy endureth for ever; since they were listened to who said, “May the Lord increase you more and more, you and your children;” that the host of the Gentiles might be added to the Israelites who believed in Christ, of the number of whom are the Apostles our father …