Psalms 54:17
But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ego autem ad Deum clamavi, et Dominus salvabit me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐγὼ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ἐκέκραξα, καὶ ὁ κύριος εἰσήκουσέν μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 55:17
- אֲ֭נִי אֶל אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֶקְרָ֑א וַ֝יהוָ֗ה יוֹשִׁיעֵֽנִי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LV
16. “Therefore to the Lord I have cried out” ( ver. 16 ). The Body of Christ and the oneness of Christ in anguish, in weariness, in uneasiness, in the tribulation of its exercise, that One Man, Oneness in One Body set, when He was wearying His soul in crying out from the ends of the earth; saith, “From the ends of the earth to Thee I have cried out, when My heart was being vexed.” Himself one, but a oneness that One! and Himself one, not in one place one, but from the ends of the earth is crying as one. How from the ends of the earth should there cry one, except there were one? “I to the Lord have cried out.” Rightly do thou cry out to the Lord, cry not to Donatus: lest for thee he be instead of the Lord a lord, that under the Lord would not be a fellow-servant.