Psalms 29:9
To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ad te, Domine, clamabo, et ad Deum meum deprecabor.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πρὸς σέ, Κύριε, κεκράξομαι, καὶ πρὸς τὸν θεόν μου δεηθήσομαι.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 30:9
- אֵלֶ֣יךָ יְהוָ֣ה אֶקְרָ֑א וְאֶל אֲ֝דֹנָ֗י אֶתְחַנָּֽן
Haydock's commentary
Will I. We must not cease to pray, (Worthington) as we are always beset with enemies. (Haydock)
This text may be explained, "I prayed," that I might suffer instead of my people, 4 Kings xxiv. 17. (Calmet)
But here the prophet seems rather to beg that he may not die, in order that he may publish God's praises. (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 A Treatise on Nature and Grace, Even Evils, Through God’s Mercy, are of Use
He asserts that “no evil is the cause of anything good;” as if punishment, forsooth, were good, although thereby many have been reformed. There are, then, evils which are of use by the wondrous mercy of God. Did that man experience some good thing, when he said, “Thou didst hide Thy face from me, and I was troubled?” Certainly not; and yet this very trouble was to him in a certain manner a remedy against his pride. For he had said in his prosperity, “I shall never be moved;” and so was ascribing to himself what he was receiving from the Lord. “For what had he that he did not receive?” It had, therefore, become necessary to show him whence he had received, that he might receive in humility what he had lost in pride. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXX
9. “Unto Thee, O Lord, will I cry, and unto my God will I pray” ( ver. 8 ). And bringing to mind that time of my trouble and misery, and as it were established therein, I hear the voice of Thy First-Begotten, my Head, about to die for me, and saying “Unto Thee, O Lord, will I cry, and unto My God will I pray.”