Psalms 5:2
Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Verba mea auribus percipe, Domine ; intellige clamorem meum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Τὰ ῥήματά μου ἐνώτισαι, Κύριε, σύνες τῆς κραυγῆς μου,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲמָרַ֖י הַאֲזִ֥ינָה יְהוָ֗ה בִּ֣ינָה הֲגִֽיגִי
Haydock's commentary
Cry. Hebrew, "meditation." (Menochius)
The cry of the heart, (St. Chrysostom) and "the groans," which the spirit forms within us, Romans viii. 26. God cannot reject such prayers. If he seems inattentive, it is because we ask amiss, James iv. 3. (Calmet)
He attends to the prayers of the Church, and of every faithful soul, (Worthington) and even exhorts sinners to come to him, that they may emerge from the abyss. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm V
2. “Hear my words, O Lord” ( ver. 1 ). Being called she calleth upon the Lord; that the same Lord being her helper, she may pass through the wickedness of this world, and attain unto Him. “Understand my cry.” The Psalmist well shows what this cry is; how from within, from the chamber of the heart, without the body’s utterance, it reaches unto God: for the bodily voice is heard, but the spiritual is understood. Although this too may be God’s hearing, not with carnal ear, but in the omnipresence of His Majesty.