Psalms 30:9
And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nec conclusisti me in manibus inimici : statuisti in loco spatioso pedes meos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ οὐ συνέκλεισάς με εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθροῦ, ἔστησας ἐν εὐρυχώρῳ τοὺς πόδας μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 31:9
- וְלֹ֣א הִ֭סְגַּרְתַּנִי בְּיַד אוֹיֵ֑ב הֶֽעֱמַ֖דְתָּ בַמֶּרְחָ֣ב רַגְלָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Place. The psalms were commonly composed after the danger was over. David had escaped the lance and the servants of Saul. (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
9. “And hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy” ( ver. 8 ). And hast not shut me up, that I should have no opening for recovering unto liberty, and be given over for ever into the power of the devil, ensnaring me with the desire of this life, and terrifying me with death. “Thou hast set my feet in a large room.” The resurrection of my Lord being known, and mine own being promised me, my love, having been brought out of the straits of fear, walks abroad in continuance, into the expanse of liberty.
St Athanasius Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.), Conclusion
Thus each surpasses the other in his own peculiar vices. But there is a common blot that attaches to them all, in that through their heresy they are enemies of Christ, and are no longer called Christians, but Arians. They ought indeed to accuse each other of the sins they are guilty of, for they are contrary to the faith of Christ; but they rather conceal them for their own sakes. And it is no wonder, that being possessed of such a spirit, and implicated in such vices, they persecute and seek after those who follow not the same impious heresy as themselves; that they delight to destroy them, and are grieved if they fail of obtaining their desires, and think themselves injured, as I said before, when they see those alive whom they wish to perish. …