Psalms 24:11
For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is great.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propter nomen tuum, Domine, propitiaberis peccato meo ; multum est enim.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἕνεκα τοῦ ὀνόματός σου, Κύριε, καὶ ἱλάσῃ τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ μου· πολλὴ γάρ ἐστιν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 25:11
- לְמַֽעַן שִׁמְךָ֥ יְהוָ֑ה וְֽסָלַחְתָּ֥ לַ֝עֲוֺנִ֗י כִּ֣י רַב הֽוּא
Haydock's commentary
Great. "Original sin is common to all, and will not be washed away, except God be pleased to destroy it in baptism." (St. Jerome)
David had committed adultery; and all must acknowledge their manifold guilt. (Calmet)
Though the guilt had been remitted, the punishment due to David's crime was to be endured in this life, and he ought daily to pray for pardon. (Berthier)
The aversion from God in sin is great, and standeth in need of his gracious remission. (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 Book X, Chapter IV
5. But for what fruit do they desire this? Do they wish me happiness when they learn how near, by Thy gift, I come unto Thee; and to pray for me, when they learn how much I am kept back by my own weight? To such will I declare myself. For it is no small fruit, O Lord my God, that by many thanks should be given to Thee on our behalf, and that by many Thou shouldest be entreated for us. Let the fraternal soul love that in me which Thou teachest should be loved, and lament that in me which Thou teachest should be lamented. Let a fraternal and not an alien soul do this, nor that “of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood,” but that fraternal one which, when it approves me, rejoices for me, but when it disapproves me, is sorry for me; because whether it approves or disapproves it loves me. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXV
11. “For Thy Name’s sake, O Lord, Thou wilt be favourable to my sin; for it is manifold” ( ver. 11 ). Thou hast not only forgiven my sins, which I committed before I believed; but also to my sin, which is manifold, since even in the way there is no lack of stumbling, Thou wilt be made favourable by the sacrifice of a troubled spirit.