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Psalms 37:1

A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.

Challoner: For a remembranceViz., of our miseries and sins: and to be sung on the sabbath day.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Psalmus David, in rememorationem de sabbato.
Septuagint (Swete): Ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυείδ· εἰς ἀνάμνησιν περὶ σαββάτου.
Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 38:1: מִזְמ֖וֹר לְדָוִ֣ד לְהַזְכִּֽיר

Haydock's commentary

For a remembrance, viz., of our miseries and sins; and to be sung on the sabbath-day. (Challoner)

This sabbath might also allude to the indolent rest which occasioned the fall of David, 2 Kings xi. 1. (Haydock)

Hebrew mentions not the sabbath; and it is not known (Calmet) why the Septuagint made this addition. The prophet may have Christ suffering for our sins in view, (Berthier) though he probably composed this psalm, when he was afflicted with an illness after this fall. (Rab. Muis, &c.) (Calmet)

It contains an excellent model for penitents, (Calmet) to enable them to regain peace of conscience, (St. Gregory) and paradise, from which they are banished by sin. (St. Augustine)

This remembrance (Worthington) is most essential. (Haydock)

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.