Psalms 118:50
This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hæc me consolata est in humilitate mea, quia eloquium tuum vivificavit me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- αὕτη με παρεκάλεσεν ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει μου, ὅτι τὸ λόγιόν σου οὐκ ἐξέκλινα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:50
- זֹ֣את נֶחָמָתִ֣י בְעָנְיִ֑י כִּ֖י אִמְרָתְךָ֣ חִיָּֽתְנִי
Haydock's commentary
This hope, hæc, though some would suppose it is put for hoc. (Berthier)
"This is my consolation in my distress." (St. Jerome) (Haydock)
Word. The expectation of thy promises has given me courage. (Worthington)
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, Zain
51. “The same is my comfort in my humiliation” ( ver. 50 ). Namely, that hope which is given to the humble, as the Scripture saith: “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” Whence also our Lord Himself saith with His own lips, “For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” We well understand here that humiliation also, not whereby each man humbleth himself by confessing his sins, and by not arrogating righteousness to himself; but when each man is humbled by some tribulation or mortification which his pride deserved; or when he is exercised and proved by endurance; whence a little after this Psalm saith, “Before I was troubled, I went wrong.”…And the Lord Jesus, when He foretold that this humiliation would be brought upon His disciples by their persecutors, did not leave them without a hope; but gave them one, whereby …