Psalms 131:3
If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house: if I shall go up into the bed wherein I lie:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si introiero in tabernaculum domus meæ ; si ascendero in lectum strati mei ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Εἰ εἰσελεύσομαι εἰς σκήνωμα οἴκου μου, εἰ ἀναβήσομαι ἐπὶ κλίνης στρωμνῆς μου,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 132:3
- אִם אָ֭בֹא בְּאֹ֣הֶל בֵּיתִ֑י אִם אֶ֝עֱלֶ֗ה עַל עֶ֥רֶשׂ יְצוּעָֽי
Haydock's commentary
If. He expresses his vow in the form of an imprecation, without expressing the penalty, as he submits to the rigour of God's justice, if he proves faithless. (Calmet)
He vows to take no rest, till he might, if it so pleased God, find a place to build a temple. (Worthington)
This he discovered; yet was not permitted to execute his pious designs. How does his fervour confound our neglect of salvation! (Haydock)
Self-love shuts the door of our heart against Christ. (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. …