Psalms 58:1
Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of It title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In finem, ne disperdas. David in tituli inscriptionem, quando misit Saul et custodivit domum ejus ut eum interficeret.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Εἰς τὸ τέλος· μὴ διαφθείρῃς· τῷ Δαυεὶδ εἰς στηλογραφίαν, ὁπότε ἀπέστειλεν Σαοὺλ καὶ ἐφύλαξεν τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ τοῦ θανατῶσαι αὐτόν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 59:1
- לַמְנַצֵּ֣חַ אַל תַּשְׁחֵת֮ לְדָוִ֪ד מִ֫כְתָּ֥ם בִּשְׁלֹ֥חַ שָׁא֑וּל וַֽיִּשְׁמְר֥וּ אֶת הַ֝בַּ֗יִת לַהֲמִיתֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Watched. Hebrew, "they (the guards) watched." The psalm relates also to the resurrection of Christ, and vocation of the Gentiles, (Berthier) as well as to the reprobation, and future conversion of the Jews. It seems to be most applicable to the times of Esdras and Nehemias: (2 Esdras iv. 1., and vi. 1.) one of whom may have composed it. (Calmet)
But this is only a conjecture, (Berthier) and Saul's emissaries may be styled Gentiles, (Menochius) because they imitated their manners. (Haydock)
Saul sent repeatedly, and went himself to attack David. He gave him Michol with the same design. (Worthington)
But God turned her heart another way. (Haydock)
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
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.