Psalms 143:10
Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui das salutem regibus, qui redemisti David servum tuum de gladio maligno,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τῷ διδόντι τὴν σωτηρίαν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν, τῷ λυτρουμένῳ Δαυεὶδ τὸν δοῦλον αὐτοῦ. ἐκ ῥομφαίας πονηρᾶς
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 144:10
- הַנּוֹתֵ֥ן תְּשׁוּעָ֗ה לַמְּלָ֫כִ֥ים הַ֭פּוֹצֶה אֶת דָּוִ֥ד עַבְדּ֗וֹ מֵחֶ֥רֶב רָעָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Kings. Their power cannot protect them. (Haydock)
Hast. Several read, "wilt redeem."
Malicious. Hebrew, "his servant from the evil sword" (Montanus) of Goliath, (Chaldean) or of Saul, (Berthier) and all his other enemies. (Haydock)
He represents himself in the midst of danger, from the rebels. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXLIV
8. “Who giveth salvation to kings, who redeemeth David His servant” ( ver. 10 ). Ye know who David is; be yourselves David. Whence “redeemeth He David His servant”? Whence redeemeth He Christ? Whence redeemeth He the Body of Christ? “From the sword of ill intent deliver me.” “From the sword” is not sufficient; he addeth, “of ill intent.” Without doubt there is a sword of good intent. What is the sword of good intent? That whereof the Lord saith, “I came not to send peace on earth, but a sword.” For He was about to separate believers from unbelievers, sons from parents, and to sever all other ties, while the sword cut off what was diseased, but healed the members of Christ. Of good intent then is the sword twice sharpened, powerful with both edges, the Old and New Testaments, with the narration of the past and the promise of the future. …