Psalms 36:33
But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him when he shall be judged.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dominus autem non derelinquet eum in manibus ejus, nec damnabit eum cum judicabitur illi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ δὲ κύριος οὐ μὴ ἐνκαταλίπῃ αὐτὸν εἰς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ, οὐδὲ μὴ καταδικάσῃ αὐτὸν ὅταν κρίνηται αὐτῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 37:33
- יְ֭הוָה לֹא יַעַזְבֶ֣נּוּ בְיָד֑וֹ וְלֹ֥א יַ֝רְשִׁיעֶ֗נּוּ בְּהִשָּׁפְטֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Judged, "by him." Illi seems to be superfluous; (Berthier) or it implies that God will revise the sentence of wicked judges. (Haydock)
The just have nothing to fear. God will pass an equitable sentence, and the condemnation of men shall do no harm. (Origen)
The mistakes of human tribunals prove the necessity of a general judgment.
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, Part 3
12. “The wicked therefore watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. But the Lord will not leave him in his hands” ( ver. 33 ). Wherefore then did He leave the Martyrs in the hands of the ungodly? Wherefore did they do unto them “whatsoever they would”? Some they slew with the sword; some they crucified; some they delivered to the beasts; some they burnt by fire; others they led about in chains, till wasted out by a long protracted decay. Assuredly “the Lord forsaketh not His Saints.” He will not “leave him in his hands.” Lastly, wherefore did He leave His own Son in “the hands of the ungodly”? Here also, if thou wouldest have all the limbs of thy inner man made strong, remove the covering of the roof, and find thy way to the Lord. Hear what another Scripture, foreseeing our Lord’s future suffering at the hands of the ungodly, saith. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Part 3
“The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when there shall be judgment for him” ( ver. 33 ). Some copies have it, “and when He shall judge him, there shall be judg ment for him.” “For him,” however, means when sentence is passed upon him. For we can express ourselves so as to say to a person, “Judge for me,” i.e. “hear my cause.” When therefore God shall begin to hear the cause of His righteous servant, since “we must all” be presented “before the tribunal of Christ,” and stand before it to receive every one “the things he hath done in this body,” whether good or evil, when therefore he shall have come to that Judgment, He will not condemn him; though he may seem to be condemned in this present life by man. Even though the Proconsul may have passed sentence on Cyprian, yet the earthly seat of judgment is one thing, the heavenly tribunal is another. …