Psalms 24:22
Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Libera, Deus, Israël ex omnibus tribulationibus suis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λύτρωσαι, ὁ θεός, τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ πασῶν τῶν θλίψεων αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 25:22
- פְּדֵ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מִ֝כֹּ֗ל צָֽרוֹתָיו
Haydock's commentary
Deliver. Hebrew pede, "redeem." All the 22 (Haydock) letters of the alphabet are complete without this supplication for all Israel, or for the Church. (Worthington)
It might form a part of the last verse, or belong to the next psalm; unless it be a conclusion like that of Psalm xxxiii., (Calmet) out of the alphabetical order. (Houbigant)
Israel. St. Augustine and some ancient psalters read, "Me, O God of Israel, from all my tribulations." (Calmet)
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 A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants, Turn to Neither Hand
Let us hold fast, then, the confession of this faith, without faltering or failure. One alone is there who was born without sin, in the likeness of sinful flesh, who lived without sin amid the sins of others, and who died without sin on account of our sins. “Let us turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.” For to turn to the right hand is to deceive oneself, by saying that we are without sin; and to turn to the left is to surrender oneself to one’s sins with a sort of impunity, in I know not how perverse and depraved a recklessness. “God indeed knoweth the ways on the right hand,” even He who alone is without sin, and is able to blot out our sins; “but the ways on the left hand are perverse,” in friendship with sins. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXV
22. “Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles” ( ver. 22 ). “Redeem Thy people, O God,” whom Thou hast prepared to see Thee, out of his troubles, not those only which he bears without, but those also which he bears within.