Psalms 55:2
Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Miserere mei, Deus, quoniam conculcavit me homo ; tota die impugnans, tribulavit me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐλέησόν με, Κύριε, ὅτι κατεπάτησέν με ἄνθρωπος, ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν πολεμῶν ἔθλιψέν με.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 56:2
- חָנֵּ֣נִי אֱ֭לֹהִים כִּֽי שְׁאָפַ֣נִי אֱנ֑וֹשׁ כָּל הַ֝יּ֗וֹם לֹחֵ֥ם יִלְחָצֵֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
Man. All combine against me. (Calmet)
The sins of every man oppressed Jesus Christ. (Berthier)
All who live piously, must suffer many attacks. (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 LVI
4. Let whatsoever holy men therefore that are suffering pressing from those that have been put afar off from the saints, give heed to this Psalm, let them perceive here themselves, let them speak what here is spoken, that suffer what here is spoken of.…Private enmities therefore let no one think of, when about to hear the words of this Psalm: “Know ye that for us the wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against princes and powers, and spiritual things of wickedness,” that is, against the devil and his angels; because even when we suffer men that annoy us, he is instigating, he is inflaming, as it were his vessels he is moving. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LVI
7. “In God I will praise my discourses, in God I have hoped: I will not fear what flesh doeth to me” ( ver. 4 ). Wherefore? Because in God I will praise my discourses. If in thyself thou praisest thy discourses: I say not that thou art not to fear; it is impossible that thou have not to fear. For thy discourses either false thou wilt have, and therefore thine own, because false: or if thy discourses shall be true, and thou shalt deem thyself not to have them from God but of thyself to speak; true they will be, but thou wilt be false: but if thou shalt have known that thou canst say nothing true in the wisdom of God, in the faith of the Truth, save that which from Him thou hast received, of whom is said, “For what hast thou which thou hast not received?” Then in God thou art praising thy discourses, in order that in God thou mayest be praised by the discourses of God.…“In God I have hoped …