Psalms 36:40
And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them, because they have hoped in him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et adjuvabit eos Dominus, et liberabit eos ; et eruet eos a peccatoribus, et salvabit eos, quia speraverunt in eo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ βοηθήσει αὐτοῖς Κύριος καὶ ῥύσεται αὐτούς, καὶ ἐξελεῖται αὐτοὺς ἐξ ἁμαρτωλῶν καὶ σώσει αὐτούς, ὅτι ἤλπισαν ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 37:40
- וַֽיַּעְזְרֵ֥ם יְהוָ֗ה וַֽיְפַ֫לְּטֵ֥ם יְפַלְּטֵ֣ם מֵ֭רְשָׁעִים וְיוֹשִׁיעֵ֑ם כִּי חָ֥סוּ בֽוֹ
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.…