Psalms 26:7
Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have mercy on me and hear me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Exaudi, Domine, vocem meam, qua clamavi ad te ; miserere mei, et exaudi me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰσάκουσον, Κύριε, τῆς φωνῆς μου ἧς ἐκέκραξα· ἐλέησόν με καὶ εἰσάκουσόν μου,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 27:7
- שְׁמַע יְהוָ֖ה קוֹלִ֥י אֶקְרָ֗א וְחָנֵּ֥נִי וַעֲנֵֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
To thee, is understood in Hebrew and the Roman Septuagint. (Haydock)
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 XXVII
7. “Hear my voice, O Lord, wherewith I have cried unto Thee” ( ver. 7 ). Hear, Lord, my interior voice, which with a strong intention I have addressed to Thy ears. “Have mercy upon me, and hear me.” Have mercy upon me, and hear me therein.
St Gregory the Great Book IX, To Januarius, Bishop of Caralis (Cagliari)
The Jews who have come hither from your city have complained to us that Peter, who has been brought by the will of God from their superstition to the worship of Christian faith, having taken with him certain disorderly persons, on the day after his baptism, that is on the Lord’s day of the very Paschal festival, with grave scandal and without your consent, had taken possession of their synagogue in Caralis, and placed there the image of the mother of our God and Lord, the venerable cross, and the white vestment ( birrum ) with which he had been clothed when he rose from the font. Concerning which thing also the letters of our sons, the glorious Magister militum Eupaterius, and the magnificent governor, pious in the Lord, concur in attesting the same. And they add also that this had been foreseen by you, and that the aforesaid Peter had been prohibited from venturing on it. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).