Psalms 63:11
The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Lætabitur justus in Domino, et sperabit in eo, et laudabuntur omnes recti corde.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εὐφρανθήσεται δίκαιος ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίῳ, καὶ ἐλπιεῖ ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν· καὶ ἐπαινεσθήσονται πάντες οἱ εὐθεῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 64:11
- יִשְׂמַ֬ח צַדִּ֣יק בַּ֭יהוָה וְחָ֣סָה ב֑וֹ וְ֝יִתְהַֽלְל֗וּ כָּל יִשְׁרֵי לֵֽב
Haydock's commentary
Praised. All will begin to esteem the chosen race. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "shall glory." The Jews and Christians (Haydock) shall esteem themselves honoured by the title of God's people. (Calmet)
They shall be praised for rightly serving God, (Worthington) and shall be rewarded by Him (Haydock) with universal applause. (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 Book II, Chapter V
10. There is a desirableness in all beautiful bodies, and in gold, and silver, and all things; and in bodily contact sympathy is powerful, and each other sense hath his proper adaptation of body. Worldly honour hath also its glory, and the power of command, and of overcoming; whence proceeds also the desire for revenge. And yet to acquire all these, we must not depart from Thee, O Lord, nor deviate from Thy law. The life which we live here hath also its peculiar attractiveness, through a certain measure of comeliness of its own, and harmony with all things here below. The friendships of men also are endeared by a sweet bond, in the oneness of many souls. On account of all these, and such as these, is sin committed; while through an inordinate preference for these goods of a lower kind, the better and higher are neglected, even Thou, our Lord God, Thy truth, and Thy law. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIV
15. “The just man shall rejoice in the Lord” ( ver. 10 ). Now the just man is not sad. For sad were the disciples at the Lord’s being crucified; overcome with sadness, sorrowing they departed, they thought they had lost hope. He rose again, even when appearing to them He found them sad. He held the eyes of two men that walked in the way, so that by them he was not known, and He found them groaning and sighing, and He held them until He had expounded the Scriptures, and by the same Scriptures had shown that so it ought to have been done as it was done. For He showed in the Scriptures, how after the third day it behoved the Lord to rise again. …