Psalms 30:10
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Miserere mei, Domine, quoniam tribulor ; conturbatus est in ira oculus meus, anima mea, et venter meus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐλέησόν με, Κύριε, ὅτι θλίβομαι· ἐταράχθη ἐν θυμῷ ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου, ἡ ψυχή μου καὶ ἡ γαστήρ μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 31:10
- חָנֵּ֥נִי יְהוָה֮ כִּ֤י צַ֫ר לִ֥י עָשְׁשָׁ֖ה בְכַ֥עַס עֵינִ֗י נַפְשִׁ֥י וּבִטְנִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Belly, or entrails. (Menochius) (Lamentations i. 20., and Ecclesiasticus li. 29.) (Haydock)
David was filled with indignation at the conduct of his enemies. (Calmet)
Both soul and body felt the effects of his great sorrow, (Haydock) which pervaded every part. (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 Augustine A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, Baptism Puts Away All Sins, But It Does Not at Once Heal All Infirmities
Baptism, therefore, washes away indeed all sins, absolutely all sins, whether of deeds or words or thoughts, whether original or added, whether such as are committed in ignorance or allowed in knowledge; but it does not take away the weakness which the regenerate man resists when he fights the good fight, but to which he consents when as man he is overtaken in any fault; on account of the former, rejoicing with thanksgiving, but on account of the latter, groaning in the utterance of prayers. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXXI
10. “Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am troubled” ( ver. 9 ). But what is this unlooked-for cruelty of the persecutors, striking such dread into me? “Have mercy on me, O Lord.” For I am now no more alarmed for death, but for torments and tortures. “Mine eye hath been disordered by anger.” I had mine eye upon Thee, that Thou shouldest not abandon me: Thou art angry, and hast disordered it. “My soul, and my belly.” By the same anger my soul hath been disturbed, and my memory, whereby I retained what my God hath suffered for me, and what He hath promised me.
Theodoret Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, Bishop of Cyprus, Letter to Andreas, Monk of Constantinople
“God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it,” and convicts falsehood, although now refuted assertion of the falsehood is approved, and the power of truth has been shewn. For, lo, they, who by their impious reasoning had confused the natures of our Saviour Christ, and dared to preach one nature, and therefore insulted the most holy and venerable Nestorius, high priest of God, their mouths held, as the prophet says, with bit and bridle and turned from wrong to right, have once again learnt the truth, adopting the statement of him who in the cause of truth has borne the brunt of the battle. For instead of one nature they now confess two, anathematizing all who preach mixture and confusion. …