Psalms 36:3
Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Spera in Domino, et fac bonitatem ; et inhabita terram, et pasceris in divitiis ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔλπισον ἐπὶ Κύριον καὶ ποίει χρηστότητα, καὶ κατασκήνου τὴν γῆν καὶ ποιμανθήσῃ ἐπὶ τῷ πλούτῳ αὐτῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 37:3
- בְּטַ֣ח בַּֽ֭יהוָה וַעֲשֵׂה ט֑וֹב שְׁכָן אֶ֝֗רֶץ וּרְעֵ֥ה אֱמוּנָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Riches. Septuagint and Houbigant read emune, "abundance." Hebrew begins with a. The sense is much the same. (Berthier)
"Thou shalt feed on faith," (St. Jerome) or "incessantly." (Symmachus)
The Jews entertained the greatest desire of the promised land. (Calmet)
It may here denote our soul, (Origen) the Church, (St. Augustine) the Scriptures, (St. Athanasius) or heaven. (St. Jerome, &c.) (Calmet)
Trust in God and be content. He will give thee what is requisite. (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 A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness, The Third Passage. It is One Thing to Depart, and Another Thing to Have Departed, from All Sin. ‘There is None that Doeth Good,’, Of Whom This is to Be Understood
He has likewise propounded another question, as we shall proceed to show, but has failed to solve it; nay, he has rather rendered it more difficult, by first stating the testimony that had been quoted against him: “There is none that doeth good, no, not one;” and then resorting to seemingly contrary passages to show that there are persons who do good. This he succeeded, no doubt, in doing. It is, however, one thing for a man not to do good, and another thing not to be without sin, although he at the same time may do many good things. The passages, therefore, which he adduces are not really contrary to the statement that no person is without sin in this life. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Part 1
4. What shouldest thou do then? “Trust in the Lord” ( ver. 3 ). For they too trust, but not “in the Lord.” Their hope is perishable. Their hope is short-lived, frail, fleeting, transitory, baseless. “Trust thou in the Lord.” “Behold,” thou sayest, “I do trust; what am I to do?”