Psalms 59:9
Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength of my head. Juda is my king:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Meus est Galaad, et meus est Manasses ; et Ephraim fortitudo capitis mei. Juda rex meus ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐμός ἐστιν Γαλαάδ, καὶ ἐμός ἐστιν Μανασσή, καὶ Ἐφράιμ κραταίωσις τῆς κεφαλῆς μου· Ἰούδας βασιλεύς μου,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 60:9
- לִ֤י גִלְעָ֨ד וְלִ֬י מְנַשֶּׁ֗ה וְ֭אֶפְרַיִם מָע֣וֹז רֹאשִׁ֑י יְ֝הוּדָ֗ה מְחֹֽקְקִי
Haydock's commentary
Head. This tribe was at the head of the kingdom of Israel, but submitted to David, (Haydock) and afforded excellent soldiers and captains. (Calmet)
His temporal kingdom was extended by God, who will crown his elect. (Worthington)
King. Hebrew, "law-giver," alluding to Genesis xlix. 10. Symmachus, "my general." (Calmet)
The word king implies all this. (Haydock)
Juda always swayed the sceptre. (Berthier)
After the captivity, Zorobabel was at the head of the people. Jesus Christ sprung from this tribe, and is the true king of the people, whom he has redeemed, and put in possession of the land of promise. (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 LX
9. “Mine is Galaad” ( ver. 7 ). These names are read in the Scriptures of God. Galaad hath the voice of an interpretation of its own and of a great Mystery: for it is interpreted “the heap of testimony.” How great a heap of testimony in the Martyrs? “Mine is Galaad,” mine is a heap of testimony, mine are the true Martyrs. …Then meanly esteemed was the Church among men, then reproach on Her a Widow was being thrown, because Christ’s She was, because the sign of the Cross on her brow She was wearing: not yet was there honour, censure there was then: when therefore not honour, but censure there was, then was made a heap of witness; and through the heap of witness was the Love of Christ enlarged; and through the enlargement of the Love of Christ, were the Gentiles possessed. There followeth, “And mine is Manasses;” which is interpreted forgotten. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LX
10. “Juda is my king: Moab the pot of my hope” ( ver. 7 ). What Juda? He that is of the tribe of Juda. What Juda, but He to whom Jacob himself said, “Juda, thy brethren shall praise thee”? What therefore should I fear, when Juda my king saith, “Fear not them that kill the body”? “Moab the pot of my hope.” Wherefore “pot”? Because tribulation. Wherefore “of my hope”? Because there hath gone before Juda my king.…Moab is perceived in the Gentiles. For that nation was born of sin, that nation was born of the daughters of Lot, who lay with their father drunken, abusing a father. Better were it to have remained barren, than thus to have become mothers. But this was a kind of figure of them that abuse the law. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVIII
1. I have not thought that the CVIII th Psalm required an exposition; since I have already expounded it in the LVII th Psalm, and in the LX th , of the last divisions of which this Psalm consisteth. For the last part of the LVII th is the first of this, as far as the verse, “Thy glory is above all the earth.” Henceforth to the end, is the last part of the LX th : as the last part of the CXXXV th is the same as that of the CXV th , from the verse, “The images of the heathen are but gold and silver:” as the XIV th -->[4899] --> and LIII d , with a few alterations in the middle, have everything the same from the beginning to the end. …