Psalms 21:6
They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ad te clamaverunt, et salvi facti sunt ; in te speraverunt, et non sunt confusi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πρὸς σὲ ἐκέκραξαν καὶ ἐσώθησαν, ἐπὶ σοὶ ἤλπισαν καὶ οὐ κατῃσχύνθησαν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 22:6
- אֵלֶ֣יךָ זָעֲק֣וּ וְנִמְלָ֑טוּ בְּךָ֖ בָטְח֣וּ וְלֹא בֽוֹשׁוּ
Haydock's commentary
Confounded. He interests his Father, by calling to mind the ancient patriarchs, (Ecclesiasticus ii. 11.; Berthier) who obtained their requests. (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 XXII
6. “They cried unto Thee, and were saved.” They cried unto Thee, not in the words of sins, from which salvation is far; and therefore were they saved. “They hoped in Thee, and were not confounded” ( ver. 5 ). “They hoped in Thee,” and their hope did not deceive them. For they placed it not in themselves.
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: