Psalms 131:2
How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sicut juravit Domino ; votum vovit Deo Jacob :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὡς ὤμοσεν τῷ κυρίῳ, ηὔξατο τῷ θεῷ Ἰακώβ
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 132:2
- אֲשֶׁ֣ר נִ֭שְׁבַּע לַיהוָ֑ה נָ֝דַ֗ר לַאֲבִ֥יר יַעֲקֹֽב
Haydock's commentary
Jacob. Probably after he had removed the ark to Sion. (Berthier)
What is omitted in one place, is thus explained elsewhere. (Calmet)
David had a most earnest desire to build the temple; and though the honour was reserved for his son, he prepared the materials. (Worthington)
He acknowledges that without God, he cannot perform his vow. (Berthier)
We have engaged to be the temples of God. (St. Augustine)
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
2. “Lord, remember David, and all his meekness” ( ver. 1 ). David according to the truth of history was one man, king of Israel, son of Jesse. He was indeed meek, as the Divine Scriptures themselves mark and command him, and so meek that he did not even render evil for evil to his persecutor Saul. He preserved towards him so great humility, that he acknowledged him a king, and himself a dog: and answered the king not proudly nor rudely, though he was more powerful in God; but he rather endeavoured to appease him by humility, than to provoke him by pride. …
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Eustochium
10. Then, after distributing money to the poor and her fellow-servants so far as her means allowed, she proceeded to Bethlehem stopping only on the right side of the road to visit Rachel’s tomb. (Here it was that she gave birth to her son destined to be not what his dying mother called him, Benoni, that is the “Son of my pangs” but as his father in the spirit prophetically named him Benjamin, that is “the Son of the right hand).” After this she came to Bethlehem and entered into the cave where the Saviour was born. …