Psalms 87:10
My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- oculi mei languerunt præ inopia. Clamavi ad te, Domine, tota die ; expandi ad te manus meas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου ἠσθένησαν ἀπὸ πτωχείας· καὶ ἐκέκραξα πρὸς σέ, Κύριε, ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, διεπέτασα τὰς χεῖράς μου·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 88:10
- עֵינִ֥י דָאֲבָ֗ה מִנִּ֫י עֹ֥נִי קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהוָ֣ה בְּכָל י֑וֹם שִׁטַּ֖חְתִּי אֵלֶ֣יךָ כַפָּֽי
Haydock's commentary
Poverty. Or "affliction." (Symmachus)
To thee, for aid, (Psalm xxvii. 2.) or to implore pardon for sinners. Thus Jesus prayed for us on the cross, (Calmet) with his hands stretched out ready to receive the penitent. (Haydock)
Septuagint have read rupaim ikimu for ropaim ikumu, "shall the dead arise?" (Amama)
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 Cyprian Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, That the Jews would fasten Christ to the cross
In Isaiah: “I have spread out my hands all day to a people disobedient and contradicting me, who walk in ways that are not good, but after their own sins.” Also in Jeremiah: “Come, let us cast the tree into His bread, and let us blot out His life from the earth.” Also in Deuteronomy: “And Thy life shall be hanging (in doubt) before Thine eyes; and Thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt not trust to Thy life.” Also in the twenty-first Psalm: “They tore my hands and my feet; they numbered all my bones. And they gazed upon me, and saw me, and divided my garments among them, and upon my vesture they cast a lot. But Thou, O Lord, remove not Thy help far from me; attend unto my help. Deliver my soul from the sword, and my only one from the paw of the dog. Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXVIII
“My eyes became weak from want” ( ver. 9 ). For what eyes are we to understand? If the eyes of the flesh in which He suffered, we do not read that His eyes became weak from want, that is, from hunger, in His Passion, as is often the case; as He was betrayed after His Supper, and crucified on the same day: if the inner eyes, how were they weakened from want, in which there was a light that could never fail? But He meant by His eyes those members in the body, of which He was Himself the head, which, as brighter and more eminent and chief above the rest, He loved. It was of this body that the Apostle was speaking, when he wrote, taking his metaphor from our own body, “If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?” etc. …