Psalms 34:22
Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not from me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vidisti, Domine : ne sileas ; Domine, ne discedas a me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἶδες, Κύριε, μὴ παρασιωπήσῃς· Κύριε, μὴ ἀποστῇς ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 35:22
- רָאִ֣יתָה יְ֭הוָה אַֽל תֶּחֱרַ֑שׁ אֲ֝דֹנָ֗י אֲל תִּרְחַ֥ק מִמֶּֽנִּי
Haydock's commentary
Silent. I have chosen thee for my judge and protector. (Calmet)
Pronounce sentence if they be in the right; and if not, rescue me from their fury. (Haydock)
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 XXXV
23. “This Thou hast seen, O Lord; keep not silence” ( ver. 22 ). What is, “keep not silence”? Judge Thou. For of judgment is it said in a certain place, “I have kept silence; shall I keep silence for ever?” And of the delaying of judgment it is said to the sinner, “These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;” “Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself.” How keepeth He silence, who speaketh by the Prophets, who speaketh with His own mouth in the Gospel, who speaketh by the Evangelists, who speaketh by us, when we speak the truth? What then? He keepeth silence from judgment, not from precept, not from doctrine. But this His judgment the Prophet in a manner invoketh, and predicteth: “Thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence;” that is, Thou wilt not keep silence, needs must that Thou wilt judge. …