Psalms 68:34
For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quoniam exaudivit pauperes Dominus, et vinctos suos non despexit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι εἰσήκουσεν τῶν πενήτων ὁ κύριος, καὶ τοὺς πεπεδημένους αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐξουδένωσεν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 69:34
- כִּֽי שֹׁמֵ֣עַ אֶל אֶבְיוֹנִ֣ים יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶת אֲ֝סִירָ֗יו לֹ֣א בָזָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Prisoners. Martyrs, (Menochius) and those who suffer for the faith, will be rewarded. (Worthington)
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 LXIX
32. “For the Lord hath hearkened to the poor” ( ver. 33 ). He hath hearkened to the poor, and He would not have hearkened to the poor, unless they were poor. Wilt thou be hearkened to? Poor be thou: let sorrow cry out from thee, and not fastidiousness. “And His fettered ones He hath not despised.” Being offended at His servants, He hath put them in fetters: but them crying from the fetters He hath not despised. What are these fetters? Mortality, the corruptibleness of the flesh are the fetters wherewith we have been bound. And would ye know the weight of these fetters? Of them is said, “The body which is corrupted weigheth down the soul.” Whenever men in the world will to be rich, for these fetters they are seeking rags. But let the rags of the fetters suffice: seek so much as is necessary for keeping off want, but when thou seekest superfluities, thou longest to load thy fetters. …