Psalms 141:1
Of understanding for David. A prayer when he was in the cave. [1 Kings 24]
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Intellectus David, cum esset in spelunca, oratio.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Συνέσεως τῷ Δαυεὶδ ἐν τῷ εἶναι αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ σπηλαίῳ· προσευχή
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 142:1
- מַשְׂכִּ֥יל לְדָוִ֑ד בִּהְיוֹת֖וֹ בַמְּעָרָ֣ה תְפִלָּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Cave. Of Engaddi, (Bossuet; Calmet) or Odollam. (Bellarmine) (Berthier)
Here David was a figure of Christ praying in the garden, &c. (St. Hilary)
The psalm may relate to the captives, (St. Chrysostom) or to martyrs, (St. Augustine) and to all under trial. David might recite it in the cave. (Berthier)
Voice. He did not speak aloud, for fear of being detected. (Worthington)
But the fervent prayer of the just, "is a cry to God." (St. Hilary) (Exodus xiv. 15.) (Calmet)
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.