Psalms 61:8
In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In Deo salutare meum et gloria mea ; Deus auxilii mei, et spes mea in Deo est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ τὸ σωτήριόν μου καὶ ἡ δόξα μου· ὁ θεὸς τῆς βοηθείας μου, καὶ ἡ ἐλπίς μου ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 62:8
- עַל אֱ֭לֹהִים יִשְׁעִ֣י וּכְבוֹדִ֑י צוּר עֻזִּ֥י מַ֝חְסִ֗י בֵּֽאלֹהִֽים
Haydock's commentary
God. The multiplicity of titles shews the prophet's love. See Apocalypse v. 12. (St. Augustine, Conf. i. 4.) (Berthier)
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 LXII
8. “For Himself is my God and My Saving One, my Taker up, I will not remove hence” ( ver. 6 ). Because “Himself is my God,” therefore He calleth me: “and my Saving One,” therefore He justifieth me: “and my Taker up,” therefore He glorifieth me. For here I am called and am justified, but there I am glorified; and from thence where I am glorified, “I will not remove.” For a sojourner I am with Thee on earth as all my fathers were. Therefore from my lodging I shall remove, from my Heavenly home I shall not remove. “In God is my salvation and my glory” ( ver. 7 ). Saved I shall be in God, glorious I shall be in God: for not only saved, but also glorious, saved, because a just man I have been made out of an ungodly man, by Him justified; but glorious, because not only justified, but also honoured. …