Psalms 142:9
Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Eripe me de inimicis meis, Domine : ad te confugi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξελοῦ με ἐκ τῶν ἐχθρῶν μου, Κύριε, ὅτι πρὸς σὲ κατέφυγον.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 143:9
- הַצִּילֵ֖נִי מֵאֹיְבַ֥י יְהוָ֗ה אֵלֶ֥יךָ כִסִּֽתִי
Haydock's commentary
Fled. Hebrew, "To thee I have hidden myself," (Montanus) or "am protected." (St. Jerome)
But the Septuagint seem to have read better, esithi. "I have hoped." (Chaldean)
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 CXLIII
11. “Deliver me from mine enemies, O Lord, for unto Thee have I fled for refuge” ( ver. 9 ). I who once fled from Thee, now flee to Thee. For Adam fled from the Face of God, and hid himself among the trees of Paradise, so that of him was said in the Book of Job, “As a servant that fleeth from his Lord, and findeth a shadow.” He fled from the Face of his Lord, and found a shadow. Woe to him, if he continue in the shade, lest it be said afterward, “All things are passed away like a shadow.” The rulers of this world, of this darkness, the rulers of the wicked; against these ye wrestle. Great is your conflict, not to see your enemies, and yet to conquer. …