Psalms 3:7
I will not fear thousands of the people, surrounding me: arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non timebo millia populi circumdantis me. Exsurge, Domine ; salvum me fac, Deus meus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐ φοβηθήσομαι ἀπὸ μυριάδων λαοῦ τῶν κύκλῳ ἐπιτιθεμένων μοι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹֽא אִ֭ירָא מֵרִבְב֥וֹת עָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר סָ֝בִ֗יב שָׁ֣תוּ עָלָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Thousands. Septuagint, "myriads." (Haydock)
If my enemies were still more numerous, I should not fear. (Calmet)
I beseech thee to help me. (Worthington)
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 Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book IV, Chapter XXXI. We should not hastily
2. Thus, after their simplicity and innocence, did these daughters [of Lot] so speak, imagining that all mankind had perished, even as the Sodomites had done, and that the anger of God had come down upon the whole earth. Wherefore also they are to be held excusable, since they supposed that they only, along with their father, were left for the preservation of the human race; and for this reason it was that they deceived their father. Moreover, by the words they used this fact was pointed out, that there is no other one who can confer upon the elder and younger church the [power of] giving birth to children, besides our Father. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm III
6. “I will not fear the thousands of people that surround me” ( ver. 6 ). It is written in the Gospels how great a multitude stood around Him as He was suffering, and on the cross. “Arise, O Lord, save me, O my God” ( ver. 7 ). It is not said to God, “Arise,” as if asleep or lying down, but it is usual in holy Scripture to attribute to God what He doeth in us; not indeed universally, but where it can be done suitably; as when He is said to speak, when by His gift Prophets speak, and Apostles, or whatsoever messengers of the truth. Hence that text, “Would you have proof of Christ, who speaketh in me?” For he doth not say, of Christ, by whose enlightening or order I speak; but he attributes at once the speaking itself to Him, by whose gift he spake.