Psalms 87:19
Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Elongasti a me amicum et proximum, et notos meos a miseria.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐμάκρυνας ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ φίλον καὶ τοὺς γνωστούς μου ἀπὸ ταλαιπωρίας.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 88:19
- הִרְחַ֣קְתָּ מִ֭מֶּנִּי אֹהֵ֣ב וָרֵ֑עַ מְֽיֻדָּעַ֥י מַחְשָֽׁךְ
Haydock's commentary
Misery. Hebrew, "darkness." Thou hast permitted my friends to abandon me, and hast exposed me to disgrace. (Calmet)
They were afraid lest they might be involved in my calamities, (Menochius) if they appeared in my defence, (Haydock) or seemed to know me. (Du Hamel)
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
“A friend Thou hast put far from me: and mine acquaintance from my misery” ( ver. 18 ). All these evils have taken place, and are happening in the limbs of Christ’s body, and God turns away His face from their prayers, by not hearing as to what they wish for, since they know not that the fulfilment of their wishes would not be good for them. The Church is “poor,” as she hungers and thirsts in her wanderings for that food with which she shall be filled in her own country: she is “in toils from her youth up,” as the very Body of Christ saith in another Psalm, “Many a time have they overcome me from my youth.” And for this reason some of her members are lifted up even in this world, that in them may be the greater lowliness. …