Psalms 36:39
But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of trouble.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Salus autem justorum a Domino ; et protector eorum in tempore tribulationis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σωτηρία δὲ τῶν δικαίων παρὰ Κυρίῳ, καὶ ὑπερασπιστὴς αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἐν καιρῷ θλίψεως·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 37:39
- וּתְשׁוּעַ֣ת צַ֭דִּיקִים מֵיְהוָ֑ה מָֽ֝עוּזָּ֗ם בְּעֵ֣ת צָרָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Salvation. This is an effect of God's grace. (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 Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Part 3
16. “But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord, and He is their strength in the time of trouble” ( ver. 39 ). “And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the sinners” ( ver. 40 ). At present therefore let the righteous bear with the sinner; let the wheat bear with the tares; let the grain bear with the chaff: for the time of separation will come, and the good seed shall be set apart from that which is to be consumed with fire. The one will be consigned to the garner, the other to “everlasting burning;” for it was for this reason that the just and the unjust were at the first together; that the one should lay a stumbling-block, that the other should be proved; that afterwards the one should be condemned, the other receive a crown.…
St Jerome Against the Pelagians, Book II
39 . The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord.