Psalms 17:19
They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- prævenerunt me in die afflictionis meæ : et factus est Dominus protector meus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- προέφθασάν με ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κακώσεώς μου, καὶ ἐγένετο Κύριος ἀντιστήριγμά μου,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 18:19
- יְקַדְּמ֥וּנִי בְיוֹם אֵידִ֑י וַֽיְהִי יְהוָ֖ה לְמִשְׁעָ֣ן לִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Affliction, when my friends joined Absalom. (Theodoret)
In the rest of this psalm, the prophet chiefly uses words in the obvious sense, yet mystically speaks of Christ, and of the faithful. (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 XVIII
19. “They have prevented Me in the day of My affliction” ( ver. 18 ). They have first injured Me, in the time when I am bearing a mortal and toilsome body. “And the Lord hath become My stay.” And since the stay of earthly pleasure was disturbed and torn up by the bitterness of misery, the Lord hath become My stay.