Psalms 85:7
I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In die tribulationis meæ clamavi ad te, quia exaudisti me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεώς μου ἐκέκραξα πρὸς σέ, ὅτι εἰσήκουσάς μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 86:7
- בְּי֣וֹם צָ֭רָתִ֥י אֶקְרָאֶ֗ךָּ כִּ֣י תַעֲנֵֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
Heard me. This gives me confidence that thou wilt do it again. (Haydock)
Thou art not like senseless idols. (Calmet)
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 LXXXVI
10. “In the day of my trouble I have cried unto Thee, for Thou hast heard me” ( ver. 7 ). A little before he had said, All the day have I cried, all the day have I been troubled. Let no Christian then say that there is any day in which he is not troubled. By “all the day” we have understood the whole of time. What then, is there trouble even when it is well with us? Even so, trouble. How is there trouble? Because “as long as we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.” Let what will abound here, we are not yet in that country whither we are hastening to return. He to whom foreign travel is sweet, loveth not his country: if his country is sweet, travel is bitter; if travel is bitter, all the day there is trouble. When is there not trouble? When there is joy in one’s country. …