Psalms 31:11
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Lætamini in Domino, et exsultate, justi ; et gloriamini, omnes recti corde.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εὐφράνθητε ἐπὶ Κύριον καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε, δίκαιοι· καὶ καυχᾶσθε, πάντες οἱ εὐθεῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 32:11
- שִׂמְח֬וּ בַֽיהוָ֣ה וְ֭גִילוּ צַדִּיקִ֑ים וְ֝הַרְנִ֗ינוּ כָּל יִשְׁרֵי לֵֽב
Haydock's commentary
Glory, which is lawful when God is the object, 1 Corinthians i. 31. My glory I will not give to another, Isaias xlii. 8. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "praise him." (St. Jerome) (Haydock)
Joy is the end of true penance, to which the prophet invites all. (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 City of God, That the Words Love and Regard (Amor and Dilectio) are in Scripture Used Indifferently of Good and Evil Affection
The right will is, therefore, well-directed love, and the wrong will is ill-directed love. Love, then, yearning to have what is loved, is desire; and having and enjoying it, is joy; fleeing what is opposed to it, it is fear; and feeling what is opposed to it, when it has befallen it, it is sadness. Now these motions are evil if the love is evil; good if the love is good. What we assert let us prove from Scripture. The apostle “desires to depart, and to be with Christ.” And, “My soul desired to long for Thy judgments;” or if it is more appropriate to say, “My soul longed to desire Thy judgments.” And, “The desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.” Yet there has always obtained the usage of understanding desire and concupiscence in a bad sense if the object be not defined. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXXII
11. “Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous:” be glad, and rejoice, ye righteous, not in yourselves, but in the Lord. “And glory, all ye that are right in heart” ( ver. 11 ): and glory in Him, all ye who understand that it is right to be subject unto Him, that so ye may be placed above all things beside.