Psalms 70:11
Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- dicentes : Deus dereliquit eum : persequimini et comprehendite eum, quia non est qui eripiat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λέγοντες Ὁ θεὸς ἐνκατέλιπεν αὐτόν· καταδιώξατε καὶ καταλάβετε αὐτόν, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ῥυόμενος.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:11
- לֵ֭אמֹר אֱלֹהִ֣ים עֲזָב֑וֹ רִֽדְפ֥וּ וְ֝תִפְשׂ֗וּהוּ כִּי אֵ֥ין מַצִּֽיל
Haydock's commentary
Him. Thus the world commonly judges of those in distress. It was known that David had sinned; but none could tell that God was now punishing him rather than putting his virtue to the trial. "Upbraid not the miserable," said Thales.
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, Part 1
5. “Deliver me from men working iniquity, and from men of bloods, save Thou me” ( ver. 2 ). They indeed were men of bloods, who slew the Just One, in whom no guilt they found: they were men of bloods, because when the foreigner washed his hands, and would have let go Christ, they cried, “Crucify, Crucify:” they were men of bloods, on whom when there was being charged the crime of the blood of Christ, they made answer, giving it to their posterity to drink, “His blood be upon us and upon our sons.” But neither against His Body did men of bloods cease to rise up; for even after the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, the Church suffered persecutions, and she indeed first that grew out of the Jewish people, of which also our Apostles were. There at first Stephen was stoned, and received that of which he had his name. For Stephanus doth signify a crown. Lowly stoned but highly crowned. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXI
11. Why do I say this? “For mine enemies have spoken against me, and they that were keeping watch for My soul, have taken counsel together ( ver. 10 ): saying, God hath forsaken Him, persecute Him, and seize Him, for there is no one to deliver Him” ( ver. 11 ). This hath been said concerning Christ. For He that with the great power of Divinity, wherein He is equal to the Father, had raised to life dead persons, on a sudden in the hands of enemies became weak, and as if having no power, was seized. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).