Psalms 21:5
In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In te speraverunt patres nostri ; speraverunt, et liberasti eos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπὶ σοὶ ἤλπισαν οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν, ἤλπισαν καὶ ἐρύσω αὐτούς·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 22:5
- בְּ֭ךָ בָּטְח֣וּ אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ בָּ֝טְח֗וּ וַֽתְּפַלְּטֵֽמוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXII
5. “Our Fathers hoped in Thee.” All the righteous, namely, who sought not their own praise, but Thine. “They hoped in Thee, and Thou deliveredst them” ( ver. 4 ).
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XLIV
3. “O God, we have heard with our ears; our fathers have told us the work that Thou didst in their days, and in the days of old” ( ver. 1 ). Wondering wherefore, in these days, He has seemingly forsaken those whom it was His will to exercise in sufferings, they recall the past events which they have heard of from their fathers; as if they said, It is not of these things that we suffer, that our fathers told us! For in that other Psalm also, He said this, “Our fathers trusted in Thee; they trusted, and Thou didst deliver them. But I am a worm and no man; a reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.” They trusted, and Thou didst deliver them; have I then hoped, and hast Thou forsaken me? And have I believed upon Thee in vain? And is it in vain that my name has been written in Thy Book, and Thy name has been inscribed on me? What our fathers told us was this: