Psalms 53:6
For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ecce enim Deus adjuvat me, et Dominus susceptor est animæ meæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἰδοὺ γὰρ ὁ θεὸς βοηθεῖ μοι, καὶ ὁ κύριος ἀντιλήμπτωρ τῆς ψυχῆς μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 54:6
- הִנֵּ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים עֹזֵ֣ר לִ֑י אֲ֝דֹנָ֗י בְּֽסֹמְכֵ֥י נַפְשִֽׁי
Haydock's commentary
Behold. He admires how God delivered him, though Saul seemed to have only one step more to take. Jesus Christ was secure amid the persecutions of the Jews, till he was pleased to deliver himself up, John x. 18. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LIV
8. “For behold, God helpeth me” ( ver. 4 ). Even themselves know not themselves, amid whom I am hiding. But if they too were to set God before their face, they would find in what manner God helpeth me. For all holy men are helped by God, but within, where no one seeth. For in like manner as the conscience of ungodly men is a great punishment, so a great joy is the very conscience of godly men. “For our glory this is,” saith the Apostle, “the testimony of our conscience.” In this within, not in the flower of the Ziphites without, doth glory that man that now saith, “For behold God helpeth me.” Surely though afar off are to be those things which He promiseth, this day have I a sweet and present help; to-day in my heart’s joy I find that without cause certain say, “Who doth show to us good things? For there is signed upon us the light of Thy countenance, O Lord, Thou hast put pleasantness i …