Psalms 30:16
My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- in manibus tuis sortes meæ : eripe me de manu inimicorum meorum, et a persequentibus me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν ταῖς χερσίν σου οἱ κλῆροί μου· ῥῦσαί με ἐκ χειρὸς ἐχθρῶν μου καὶ ἐκ τῶν καταδιωκόντων με.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 31:16
- בְּיָדְךָ֥ עִתֹּתָ֑י הַצִּ֘ילֵ֤נִי מִיַּד א֝וֹיְבַ֗י וּמֵרֹדְפָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Lots. Roman Septuagint kleroi, as the same word, hittothai is rendered [in] Judges xxi. 22. Others explain "times," with the Roman Psalter, &c., in the same sense, to denote (Berthier) that all the vicissitudes of life, both prosperity and adversity, are at God's disposal. (Theodoret)
If he protects me, all my enemies will rage in vain. (Calmet)
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 XXXI
16. “In Thy hands” are “my lots” ( ver. 15 ). In Thy power are my lots. For I see no desert for which out of the universal ungodliness of the human race Thou hast elected me particularly to salvation. And though there be with Thee some just and secret order in my election, yet I, from whom this is hid, have attained by lot unto my Lord’s vesture. “Deliver me from the hands of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.”
St Athanasius Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.), The Lord's example followed by the Saints
Our Lord therefore, as I said before, thus offered Himself for all; and the Saints having received this example from their Saviour (for all of them before His coming, nay always, were under His teaching), in their conflicts with their persecutors acted lawfully in flying, and hiding themselves when they were sought after. And being ignorant, as men, of the end of the time which Providence had appointed unto them, they were unwilling at once to deliver themselves up into the power of those who conspired against them. …