Psalms 24:3
Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Neque irrideant me inimici mei : etenim universi qui sustinent te, non confundentur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ γὰρ πάντες οἱ ὑπομένοντές σε οὐ μὴ καταισχυνθῶσιν· αἰσχυνθήτωσαν οἱ ἀνομοῦντες διὰ κενῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 25:3
- גַּ֣ם כָּל קֹ֭וֶיךָ לֹ֣א יֵבֹ֑שׁוּ יֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּ הַבּוֹגְדִ֥ים רֵיקָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Laugh. Saying scornfully where is their God? (Calmet)
Wait. This is often urged (Isaias xlii. 23.) as comprising all the science of a spiritual life. We must neither despair nor omit the means of salvation. (Berthier)
Those who hope for the accomplishment of God's promises, will not be disappointed. (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 Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXV
3. “And let not my enemies mock me.” And let them not mock me, who by ensnaring me with serpent-like and secret suggestions, and prompting me with “Well done, well done,” have brought me down to this. “For all that wait upon Thee shall not be confounded” ( ver. 3 ).