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Psalms 56:1

Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. [1 Kings 24]

Challoner: Destroy notSuffer me not to be destroyed.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): In finem, ne disperdas. David in tituli inscriptionem, cum fugeret a facie Saul in speluncam.
Septuagint (Swete): Εἰς τὸ τέλος· μὴ διαφθείρῃς· τῷ Δαυεὶδ εἰς στηλογραφίαν, ἐν τῷ αὐτὸν ἀποδιδράσκειν ἀπὸ προσώπου Σαοὺλ εἰς τὸ σπήλαιον.
Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 57:1: לַמְנַצֵּ֣חַ אַל תַּ֭שְׁחֵת לְדָוִ֣ד מִכְתָּ֑ם בְּבָרְח֥וֹ מִפְּנֵי שָׁ֝א֗וּל בַּמְּעָרָֽה

Haydock's commentary

Destroy not. Suffer me not to be destroyed, (Challoner; Menochius) or I will not allow my men to destroy an implacable foe, (Haydock) as they entreat me to do. This conduct is worthy of eternal memory. (Worthington)

The words may also be an admonition to the reader, not to alter this piece, Apocalypse xxii. 18. (Calmet)

Al tashcheth, (or thosséth.; Haydock) is supposed to be an instrument, or a favourite song, such as that of Moses, (Deuteronomy ix. 26.) which begins thus. But the point is uncertain. The same words occur, Psalm lviii., lix., (Berthier) and lxxiv. They are put in the mouth of Christ suffering, by St. Hilary, &c.

Cave of Odollam, or rather of Engaddi. (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.