Psalms 39:14
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me, look down, O Lord, to help me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Complaceat tibi, Domine, ut eruas me ; Domine, ad adjuvandum me respice.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εὐδόκησον, Κύριε, τοῦ ῥύσασθαί με· Κύριε, εἰς τὸ βοηθῆσαί μοι πρόσχες.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 40:14
- רְצֵ֣ה יְ֭הוָה לְהַצִּילֵ֑נִי יְ֝הוָ֗ה לְעֶזְרָ֥תִי חֽוּשָׁה
Haydock's commentary
Be pleased. The rest is nearly transcribed, Psalm lxix. (Calmet)
The Church prays for her weak members. (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, Psalm XL
22. “Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me” ( ver. 13 ). As if he were saying, “‘If Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.’ Be pleased to deliver me. O Lord, look upon me to help me.” Look, that is, on the penitent members, members that lie in pain, members that are writhing under the instruments of the surgeon; but still in hope.