Psalms 90:3
For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo venantium, et a verbo aspero.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι αὐτὸς ῥύσεται ἐκ παγίδος θηρευτῶν, καὶ ἀπὸ λόγου ταραχώδους·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 91:3
- כִּ֤י ה֣וּא יַ֭צִּֽילְךָ מִפַּ֥ח יָק֗וּשׁ מִדֶּ֥בֶר הַוּֽוֹת
Haydock's commentary
Delivered me. Hebrew and Septuagint, "shall deliver thee." Yet the Alexandrian copy has me. (Haydock)
The psalmist addresses his own soul. (Berthier)
Word, verbo: we sometimes find "sword," printed by mistake. Hebrew dabar, signifies "word, thing, pestilence, &c." (Haydock)
The devil employs human respect to draw many into his nets. (St. Augustine) (Berthier)
Neither subtle craft, nor the cruelty of tyrants will disturb those who trust in Providence. (Worthington)
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 XCI
4. Thus then do thou say also, “In Him will I trust. For He Himself shall deliver me” ( ver. 3 ), not I myself. Observe whether he teaches anything but this, that all our trust be in God, none in man. Whence shall he deliver thee? “From the snare of the hunter, and from a harsh word.” Deliverance from the hunter’s net is indeed a great blessing: but how is deliverance from a harsh word so? Many have fallen into the hunter’s net through a harsh word. What is it that I say? The devil and his angels spread their snares, as hunters do: and those who walk in Christ tread afar from those snares: for he dares not spread his net in Christ: he sets it on the verge of the way, not in the way. Let then thy way be Christ, and thou shalt not fall into the snares of the devil.…