Psalms 16:7
Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust in thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Mirifica misericordias tuas, qui salvos facis sperantes in te.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- θαυμάστωσον τὰ ἐλέη σου, ὁ σώζων τοὺς ἐλπίζοντας ἐπὶ σὲ ἐκ τῶν ἀνθεστηκότων τῇ δεξιᾷ σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 17:7
- הַפְלֵ֣ה חֲ֭סָדֶיךָ מוֹשִׁ֣יעַ חוֹסִ֑ים מִ֝מִּתְקוֹמְמִ֗ים בִּֽימִינֶֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
Mercies. We become accustomed to the ordinary effects of grace, which are always admirable; and we are astonished only at miraculous conversions and occurrences. (Origen)
Some such manifestation of the divine power seemed now requisite, to deliver David from such a powerful rival as Saul. (Calmet)
Syriac, "Lord, make thy holy one appear as a prodigy, as the Saviour of those who hope in thee." (St. Jerome)
"O thou Saviour of those who hope." (Haydock)
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 XVII
7. “Make Thy mercies marvellous” ( ver. 7 ). Let not Thy mercies be disesteemed, lest they be loved too little.
St Ambrose Epistle XX: To Marcellina as to the Arian Party
14. I then commenced the following address. You have heard, my children, the reading of the book of Job, which, according to the appointed order and season, is being gone through. By experience the devil also knew that this book would be explained, in which all the power of his temptations is shown and made clear, and so to-day he roused himself with greater vigour. But thanks be to our God, who has so established you with faith and patience. I had mounted the pulpit to praise Job alone, and I have found in you all Jobs to praise. In each of you Job lives again, in each the patience and valour of that saint has shone forth again. For what more resolute could have been said by Christian men, than what the Holy Spirit has to-day spoken in you? We request, O Augustus, we do not fight, we do not fear, but we request. …