Psalms 139:13
I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cognovi quia faciet Dominus judicium inopis, et vindictam pauperum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔγνων ὅτι ποιήσει Κύριος τὴν κρίσιν τοῦ πτωχοῦ καὶ τὴν δίκην τῶν πενήτων.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 140:13
- ידעת כִּֽי יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה יְ֭הוָה דִּ֣ין עָנִ֑י מִ֝שְׁפַּ֗ט אֶבְיֹנִֽים
Haydock's commentary
I know. Hebrew, "thou knowest." But some copies read more accurately. (Houbigant)
Poor. Thus, in the end, was Lazarus treated. [Luke xvi. 22.] (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, Psalm CXL
15. “I know that the Lord will maintain the right of the needy” ( ver. 12 ). This “needy” one is not “full of words;” for he that is full of words, wisheth to abound, knoweth not to hunger. He is “needy” of whom it is said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” They groan among the stumbling-blocks of the wicked, they pray to their Head, “to be delivered from the wicked man. “And the cause of the poor.” These then are they whose cause the Lord will not neglect; although now they suffer hardships, their glory shall appear, when their Head appeareth. For to such while placed here it is said, “Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” So then we are poor, our life is hid; let us cry to Him that is our Bread.…