Psalms 29:11
The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became my helper.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Audivit Dominus, et misertus est mei ; Dominus factus est adjutor meus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἤκουσεν Κύριος καὶ ἠλέησέν με, Κύριος ἐγενήθη βοηθός μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 30:11
- שְׁמַע יְהוָ֥ה וְחָנֵּ֑נִי יְ֝הוָה הֱֽיֵה עֹזֵ֥ר לִֽי
Haydock's commentary
The Lord. Hebrew points determine, "Lord, hear," &c. But the Greek interpreters agree with the Vulgate, which seems better. (Berthier)
St. Jerome, however, makes this a prayer. "Hear," &c. (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 XXX
11. “The Lord hath heard, and had mercy on Me, the Lord hath become My helper.” Nor did “He suffer His holy One to see corruption” ( ver. 10 ).
St Gregory of Nyssa Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
But if any one would give a more sensuous interpretation to the words “God said,” as proving that articulate speech was His creation, by a parity of reason he must understand by the words “God saw,” that He did so by faculties of perception like our own, through the organs of vision; and so again by the words “The Lord heard me and had mercy upon me,” and again, “He smelled a sweet savour,” and whatever other sensuous expressions are employed by Scripture in reference to head, or foot, or hand, or eyes, or fingers, or sandals, as appertaining to God, taking them, I say, in their plain literal acceptation, he will present to us an anthropomorphous deity, after the similitude of what is seen among ourselves. …