Psalms 134:14
For the Lord will judge his people, and will be entreated in favour of his servants.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quia judicabit Dominus populum suum, et in servis suis deprecabitur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἰκτείρει Κύριος τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ παρακληθήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 135:14
- כִּֽי יָדִ֣ין יְהוָ֣ה עַמּ֑וֹ וְעַל עֲ֝בָדָ֗יו יִתְנֶחָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Entreated. Deuteronomy xxxii. 36. "Have pity," (Berthier) or revenge.
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 CXXXV
12. “The Lord hath judged His people, and will be called upon among His servants” ( ver. 14 ). Already hath He judged the people. Save the final judgment, the people of the Jews is judged. What is “judged”? The just are taken away, the unjust are left. But if I lie, or am thought to lie, because I have said, it is already judged, hear the Lord saying, “I have come for judgment into this world, that they who see not may see, and they who see may be made blind.” The proud are made blind, the lowly are enlightened. Therefore, “He hath judged His people.” Isaiah spake the judgment. …
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).