Psalms 60:5
In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected under the covert of thy wings.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Inhabitabo in tabernaculo tuo in sæcula ; protegar in velamento alarum tuarum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- παροικήσω ἐν τῷ σκηνώματί σου εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, διάψαλμα. σκεπασθήσομαι ἐν σκέπῃ τῶν πτερύγων σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 61:5
- אָג֣וּרָה בְ֭אָהָלְךָ עוֹלָמִ֑ים אֶֽחֱסֶ֨ה בְסֵ֖תֶר כְּנָפֶ֣יךָ סֶּֽלָה
Haydock's commentary
Tabernacle. The words for ever seem to confine this to heaven, as the Fathers explain them, though they may also allude to a temporal protection (Berthier) in the temple. (Calmet)
Wings. Chaldean, "of thy deity." Chaldean, I will continue a member of thy Church here, and be happy for ever. (Menochius)
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 LXI
5. “A sojourner I will be in Thy tabernacle even unto ages” ( ver. 4 ). Ye see how he, of whom we have spoken, is he that crieth. Which of us is a sojourner even unto ages? For a few days here we live, and we pass away: for sojourners here we are, inhabitants in Heaven we shall be. Thou art a sojourner in that place where thou art to hear the voice of the Lord thy God, “Remove.” For from that Home everlasting in the Heavens no one will bid thee to remove. Here therefore a sojourner thou art. Whence also is said in another Psalm, “A sojourner I am with Thee and a stranger, as all my fathers were.” Here therefore sojourners we are; there the Lord shall give to us mansions everlasting: “Many are,” He saith, “the mansions in My Father’s house.” Those mansions not as though to sojourners He will give, but as though to citizens to abide for everlasting. …