Psalms 87:16
I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pauper sum ego, et in laboribus a juventute mea ; exaltatus autem, humiliatus sum et conturbatus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πτωχός εἰμι ἐγὼ καὶ ἐν κόποις ἐκ νεότητός μου, ὑψωθεὶς δὲ ἐταπεινώθην καὶ ἐξηπορήθην.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 88:16
- עָ֘נִ֤י אֲנִ֣י וְגֹוֵ֣עַ מִנֹּ֑עַר נָשָׂ֖אתִי אֵמֶ֣יךָ אָפֽוּנָה
Haydock's commentary
Exalted. On the cross, or arrived at the years of manhood, (Berthier; Worthington) I have experienced the greatest contradictions. David was brought up in poverty, like our Saviour, and the exaltation of both was attended with great trials. (Berthier)
The life of Christ was a continual martyrdom. (Menochius)
He had all his sufferings in view from his first conception.
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 LXXXVIII
“I am poor, and in toils from my youth up: and when lifted up, I was thrown down, and troubled” ( ver. 15 ).