Psalms 35:1
Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In finem. Servo Domini ipsi David.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Εἰς τὸ τέλος· τῷ δούλῳ Κυρίου τῷ Δαυείδ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 36:1
- לַמְנַצֵּ֬חַ לְעֶֽבֶד יְהוָ֬ה לְדָוִֽד
Haydock's commentary
Himself. Psalm is understood. It is expressed in St. Ambrose and St. Jerome, (Calmet) and in the Alexandrian Septuagint. (Haydock)
Eusebius improperly assigns the cause of the omission to the piece being of a moral nature. Many suppose it refers to Saul, who had promised that he would give ear no more to the detractors of David, when the latter restored to him his spear and cup, 1 Kings xxvi. (Theodoret, &c.)
But it seems rather to express the sentiments of the captives at Babylon, like the Psalms x., xi., xiii., and lii. (Calmet)
David gloried in the title of servant of the Lord, though he bore the sceptre, Psalm xvii., (Berthier) and Psalm cxv. 16. (Menochius)
He applies this instruction to himself, and to all in the lowest stations. (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.