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Psalms 80:1

Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.

Challoner: For the winepressesTorcularibus. It either signifies a musical instrument, or that this psalm was to be sung at the feast of the tabernacles after the gathering in of the vintage.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): In finem, pro torcularibus. Psalmus ipsi Asaph.
Septuagint (Swete): Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ὑπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν· τῷ Ἀσὰφ ψαλμός.
Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 81:1: לַמְנַצֵּ֬חַ עַֽל הַגִּתִּ֬ית לְאָסָֽף

Haydock's commentary

For the wine-presses, &c., torcularibus. It either signifies a musical instrument, or that this psalm was to be sung at the feast of the tabernacles after the gathering in of the vintage, (Calmet) or on the feast of trumpets, on the 1st of Tisri, Leviticus xxiii. 24. (Eusebius) (Pin.) (Calmet) See Psalm viii.

From the grape some good wine is extracted, and the rest is thrown away: so in this psalm we find the just rejoice, while the wicked complain, during the persecutions of the Church. (St. Augustine)

Some Latin copies add, "on the 5th day of the week;" and Genebrard supposes that these additions are owing to the Jewish traditions, (Calmet) as they might sing this psalm on Thursday. (Haydock)

We need not attempt to ascribe this piece to any particular time, though some have thought that it regards the captives, the translation of the ark, or the vocation of the Gentiles, &c. (Calmet)

It is very beautiful. (Berthier)

Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion 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).

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.