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Psalms 4:1

Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David.

Challoner: Unto the endOr, as St. Jerome renders it, victori, to him that overcometh: which some understand of the chief musician; to whom they suppose the psalms, which bear that title, were given to be sung: we rather understand the psalms thus inscribed to refer to Christ, who is the end of the law, and the great conqueror of death and hell, and to the New Testament.-- Ibid.

Challoner: In versesin carminibus. In the Hebrew, it is neghinoth, supposed by some to be a musical instrument, with which this psalm was to be sung.-- Ibid.

Challoner: For DavidThat is, inspired to David himself, or to be sung.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): In finem, in carminibus. Psalmus David.
Septuagint (Swete): Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ἐν ψαλμοῖς· ᾠδὴ τῷ Δαυείδ.
Hebrew (WLC): לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ בִּנְגִינ֗וֹת מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד

Haydock's commentary

Unto the end. Or as St. Jerome renders it, victory to him that overcometh; which some understand of the chief musician; to whom they suppose the psalms, which bear that title, were given to be sung. We rather understand the psalms thus inscribed to refer to Christ, who is the end of the law, and the great Conqueror of death and hell; and to the New Testament.

In verses, in carminibus. In the Hebrew, it is neginoth, supposed by some to be a musical instrument, with which this psalm was to be sung.

For David, or to David, to David, that is, inspired to David himself, or to be sung by him. (Challoner)

Lamnetseach, from nitseach, "to push to an end," may signify (Haydock) to the end; and this sense is more noble than (Berthier) "To the precentor, or president." (Calmet)

Binginoth. (Haydock)

"Over the female musicians." (Calmet)

"To the chief of the singers on stringed instruments." (Duguet.)

The psalms which have this title, relate to future times, and to the Church of Christ; (St. Augustine; Worthington) or were to be sung at the close of the Jewish festivals, &c. (Berthier)

This is considered as a sequel to the preceding, to thank God for the late victory over Absalom. (Calmet)

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.