Psalms 131:10
For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thy anointed.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propter David servum tuum non avertas faciem christi tui.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἕνεκεν Δαυεὶδ τοῦ δούλου σου, μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ χριστοῦ σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 132:10
- בַּ֭עֲבוּר דָּוִ֣ד עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ אַל תָּ֝שֵׁ֗ב פְּנֵ֣י מְשִׁיחֶֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
Sake. What confidence are we not taught to place in the merits of the saints! The captives remind God of the virtues of David and Solomon, and use their expressions to move him to shew mercy, and to restore the temple to its ancient splendour; (Calmet) or rather, (Haydock) the consideration of David's being a man according to God's own heart, to whom various promises had been made for the establishment of his seed, is adduced to move the Lord to send the Messias speedily. (Worthington)
The future obstinacy of many Jews in rejecting him, was foreseen and deprecated. (St. Augustine)
Anointed. Do not cover me with confusion, (Calmet) or delay the promised Redeemer. (Haydock)
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
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 CXXXII
10. “For Thy servant David’s sake, turn not away the face of Thine Anointed” ( ver. 10 ). These words are addressed unto God the Father. “For Thy servant David’s sake, turn not away the face of Thine Anointed.” The Lord was crucified in Judæa; He was crucified by the Jews; harassed by them, He slept. He arose to judge those among whose savage hands He slept: and He saith elsewhere, “Raise Thou Me up again, and I shall reward them.” He both hath rewarded them, and will reward them. The Jews well know themselves how great were their sufferings after the Lord’s death. They were all expelled from the very city, where they slew Him. What then? have all perished even from the root of David and from the tribe of Judah? No: for some of that stock believed, and in fact many thousands of men of that stock believed, and this after the Lord’s resurrection. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).