Psalms 31:7
Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tu es refugium meum a tribulatione quæ circumdedit me ; exsultatio mea, erue me a circumdantibus me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σύ μου εἶ καταφυγὴ ἀπὸ θλίψεως τῆς περιεχούσης με· τὸ ἀγαλλίαμά μου, λύτρωσαί με ἀπὸ τῶν κυκλωσάντων με. διάψαλμα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 32:7
- אַתָּ֤ה סֵ֥תֶר לִי֮ מִצַּ֪ר תִּ֫צְּרֵ֥נִי רָנֵּ֥י פַלֵּ֑ט תְּס֖וֹבְבֵ֣נִי סֶֽלָה
Haydock's commentary
Refuge. Hebrew, "hiding," (Psalm xxx. 21.; Haydock) or asylum. (Calmet)
Which. Hebrew, "thou shalt surround me with songs of deliverance. Sela." Or "my praise saving, thou wilt environ me always." (St. Jerome) (Haydock)
Perhaps th may now occupy the place of m, as the Greeks all agree; and the sense is at least the same. (Berthier)
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 Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John, 1 John III. 19, IV. 3
3. This it is then that he enforces here. “In this we know that we are of the truth, when in deed and in truth” we love, “not only in words and in tongue: and assure our heart before Him.” What meaneth, “before Him?” Where He seeth. Whence the Lord Himself in the Gospel saith: “Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward with your Father which is in heaven.” And what meaneth, “Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:” except that the right hand means a pure conscience, the left hand the lust of the world? Many through lust of the world do many wonderful things: the left hand worketh, not the right. The right hand ought to work, and without knowledge of the left hand, so that lust of the world may not even mix itself therewith when by love we work aught that is good. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXXII
7. “Thou art my refuge from the pressures, which have compassed me about:” Thou art my refuge from the pressure of my sins, which hath compassed my heart. “O Thou, my Rejoicing, deliver me from them that compass me about” ( ver. 7 ): in Thee is my joy: deliver me from the sorrow which my sins bring upon me.
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews 2.5-7
Think, what thou singest on that occasion, “Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.” ( Ps. cxvi. 7 .) And again, “I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.” ( Ps. xxiii. 4 .) And again, “Thou art my refuge from the affliction which encompasseth me.” ( Ps. xxxii. 7 .) Think what these Psalms mean. But thou dost not give heed, but art drunk from grief.