Exaudi, Deus. A prayer for the coming of the kingdom of Christ, which shall have no end.
Faithful people of the whole earth pray, and acknowlege that God mercifully heareth their prayer. 6. expect the eternal kingdom of Christ, in which they shal praise him for euermore.
1Unto the end, in hymns, for David.Vnto the end, in hyms to Dauid.In finem. In hymnis David. 2Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer.Esaudisci, o Dio le mie suppliche, porgi orecchio alla mia orazione.HEARE ô God my petitions attend to my praier.Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam; / intende orationi meæ. 3To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;Dalle estremità della terra a te alzai le mie grida: mentre il mio cuore era in affanno sopra un alta pietra mi collocasti.From the ends of the earth I haue cried to thee: whiles my hart was in anguish, thou didst exalt me on a rockeA finibus terræ ad te clamavi, dum anxiaretur cor meum; / in petra exaltasti me. / Deduxisti me, 4For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face of the enemy.Tu fosti mia guida, perché tu se' mia speranza, torre fortissima contro il nimico.Thou hast conducted me, because thou art made my hope: a toure of strength from the face of the enimie.quia factus es spes mea: / turris fortitudinis a facie inimici. 5In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected under the covert of thy wings.Abiterò per sempre nel tuo tabernacolo: sarò protetto sotto il velo delle tue ali.I shal inhabite in thy tabernacle for euer: I shal be protected in the couert of thy winges.Inhabitabo in tabernaculo tuo in sæcula; / protegar in velamento alarum tuarum. 6For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.Perché tu, o Dio, hai esaudita la mia orazione: hai data l'eredità a quelli, che temono il nome tuo.Because thou my God hast heard my prayer: thou hast giuen inheritance to those that feare thy name.Quoniam tu, Deus meus, exaudisti orationem meam; / dedisti hæreditatem timentibus nomen tuum. 7Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to generation and generation.Giorni tu aggiungerai a' giorni del re: gli anni di lui fino al di d'una, e d'altra generazione.Thou wilt adde dayes vpon the dayes of the king: his years euen vnto the day of generation and generation.Dies super dies regis adjicies; / annos ejus usque in diem generationis et generationis. 8He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search?Egli dura in eterno nel cospetto di Dio: chi potrà penetrare la misericordia di lui, e la verità?He is permanent for euer in the sight of God: his mercie and truth who shal require?Permanet in æternum in conspectu Dei: / misericordiam et veritatem ejus quis requiret ?
9So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may pay my vows from day to day.Così io per tutti i secoli canterò inno di laude al nome tuo: per rendere ogni giorno i miei voti.So wil I say a Psalme to thy name for euer and euer: that I may render my vowes from day to day.Sic psalmum dicam nomini tuo in sæculum sæculi, / ut reddam vota mea de die in diem.
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Calmet
Hymns. This denotes either the female musicians, or the instruments. (Calmet)
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Haydock
Earth of Palestine, (Berthier) when David was at Mahanaim. (Ferrand) (2 Kings 17:22.) (Haydock)
The countries beyond the Euphrates may be so styled, Psalm 64:6.
Eusebius † AD 339
Rock, by inspiring Cyrus to grant us liberty, (Calmet) or by sending Jesus Christ. (Eusebius)
Worthington
The Church is firmly established; and, in all places, serves God. (Worthington)
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Calmet
Tabernacle. The words for ever seem to confine this to heaven, as the Fathers explain them, though they may also allude to a temporal protection (Berthier) in the temple. (Calmet)
Menochius
Wings. Chaldean, "of thy deity." Chaldean, I will continue a member of thy Church here, and be happy for ever. (Menochius)
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Berthier
Inheritance. David had both a temporal, and an eternal one in view. (Berthier)
Calmet
The captives express their gratitude for their deliverance. (Calmet)
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Calmet
King. They wish long life to the king, expecting that the predictions of the prophets insured to them temporal dominion. But when they saw Zorobabel possess no such splendour, they were naturally taught to extend their thoughts to the Messias, of whom the Chaldeans and ancient Jews, as well as the Fathers, explain this passage. (Calmet)
Berthier
Chaldean, "the days of the future world thou wilt add to the days of the king, the Messias. His years shall be like the generations of this world, and the generations of the world to come." Eternity is clearly meant. If David speaks of himself, and of his successors on the throne for many ages, he must be considered as a figure of Christ, who is also designated. (Berthier)
Worthington
The Church will continue to the end, and be triumphant throughout eternity. (Worthington)
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Haydock
Search? Who can comprehend what thou hast prepared for this king? He may allude to the promises made to David's family, (Psalm 88:30, 38.; Calmet) which should reign for ever, by means of Christ. (Haydock)
Worthington
Who can explain the mercy of God in redeeming us; and his fidelity in granting his promised rewards? (Worthington)
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Haydock
Day. A Levite speaks, having dedicated himself by vow to serve God continually in his temple, after his return from Babylon, (Calmet) or David expresses his resolution to testify his gratitude, by sacrifice. (Haydock)
Worthington
I will sing psalms, etc., in this life, and for ever. (Worthington)
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In songues of praise and thankes to God.
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From al coastes of the earth faithful people pray to God,
the Church builded vpon an assured fundation, is exalted to great powre and dignitie.
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God conducteth, defendeth, and deliuereth those that confidently trust in him.
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in the Church, a place of assured protection.
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Christs kingdome the Church perpetual to the end of this world, and eternal after the general Resurrection.
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Who is able to vnderstand, or explicate how great Christs mercie is in redeming vs,
and his truth in performing his promised rewardes?
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For so imestimable benefites, I wil alwayes praise thee with Psalmes, Canticles, or other thankes in this life:
and eternally in the life to come.
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 61.2
2. “Hearken, O God, to my supplication, give heed to my prayer” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Letters of St. Augustin 93.28
… Again, it is the Church which saith, “From the end of the earth have I cried unto Thee when my heart was overwhelmed;”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 On Baptism, Against the Donatists 1.4
… which, rising amid tares, and seeking rest in the future from the weariness of offenses, says in the Book of Psalms, "From the end of the earth I cried unto Thee, while my heart was in weariness: Thou didst exalt me on a rock."
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist 2.109
… For she says, "From the end of the earth have I cried unto Thee; when my heart was distressed Thou didst lift me up upon the rock; Thou hast led me, Thou, my hope, hast become a tower of courage from the face of the enemy."
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 50.13
… And the heavens shall declare His righteousness: for God is Judge. Let heavens go, let the heavens tell, into every land let their sound go out, and unto the ends of the world their words: and let that body say, “From the ends of the world unto Thee have I cried, when my heart was in heaviness.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 55.16
… 16 ). The Body of Christ and the oneness of Christ in anguish, in weariness, in uneasiness, in the tribulation of its exercise, that One Man, Oneness in One Body set, when He was wearying His soul in crying out from the ends of the earth; saith, “From the ends of the earth to Thee I have cried out, when My heart was being vexed.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 61.2
2. “Hearken, O God, to my supplication, give heed to my prayer” ( ver. 1 ). Who saith? He, as if One. See whether one: “From the ends of the earth to Thee I have cried, while my heart was being vexed” (
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 86.4
… Surely He speaks inseparably from His body when He speaks thus. Shall I then dare to say, “For I am holy”? If holy as making holy, and as needing none to sanctify, I should be proud and false: but if holy as made holy, as it is written, “Be ye holy, for I am holy,” then the body of Christ may venture, and that one Man “crying from the end of the earth,”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 102.2
… The title is, “A Prayer of the afflicted, when he was tormented, and poured out his prayer before the Lord.” It is the same poor one who elsewhere saith: “From the ends of the earth will I call upon Thee, when my heart is in heaviness.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 120.6
6. But what he saith, “My pilgrimage hath been made distant,” are the words of those, that is, of the Church herself, who toileth on this earth. It is her voice, which crieth out from the ends of the earth in another Psalm, saying, “From the ends of the earth have I cried unto Thee.
John Cassian † AD 435 The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults 5.1
… first, Gluttony or the pleasures of the palate; secondly, Fornication; thirdly, Covetousness, which means Avarice, or, as it may more properly be called, the love of money, fourthly, Anger; fifthly, Dejection; sixthly, “Accidie,”
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St Ephrem the Syrian † AD 373 Ephraim Syrus: Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh 2
Blessed the Shepherd Who became a Lamb for our reconcilement! Blessed the Branch Who became the Cup of our Redemption! Blessed also be the Cluster, Fount of medicine of life! Blessed also be the Tiller, Who became Wheat, that He might be sown; and a Sheaf, that He might be cut! [Blessed be] the Architect Who became a Tower for our place of safety!
St Gregory of Nyssa † AD 395 Against Eunomius 10.1
… so also He is termed a “tower of strength
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 61.4
4. “Thou hast led me down, because Thou hast been made my hope: a tower of strength from the face of the enemy” (
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 62.2
… Therefore, down from the higher place fortified and protected, he, to whom the Lord hath been made a refuge, he, to whom is God Himself for a fortified place, hath regard to those whom he hath leaped over, and looking down upon them speaketh as though from a lofty tower: for this also hath been said of Him, “A Tower of strength from the face of the enemy:”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 62.14
… Do not therefore wonder, God permitteth, and in judgment permitteth: He permitteth, and in measure, number, weight, He permitteth. With Him is not iniquity: do thou only belong to Him; on Himself thy hope set thou, let Himself be thy Helper, thy Salvation: in Him be there the fortified place, the tower of strength,
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 61.5
5. “A sojourner I will be in Thy tabernacle even unto ages” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 61.6
6. “For Thou, O God, hast hearkened to my prayer” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 61.7
7. “Days upon days of the King Thou shalt add to the years of Him” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 61.8
8. “He shall abide for everlasting in the sight of God” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 61.9
9. “So I will play music to Thy name, that I may render my vows from day unto day” (
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… same spiritual situation as in the individual psalms (e.g., 16, 27, 30, 38, 60) imploring the immediate help of the Lord, refuge and deliverer (καταφυγή and βύστης) of the faithful who have recourse to him to escape from impending danger (Ps. 17, 3; 60, 5; 70, 4; 90, 1 ff.; 114, 2-5; 142, 9 = καταφεύγομεν and βύσαι ἡμᾶς [ἐκ κινδύνου] of the S. t. p.). Significant in this regard is the comparison with the most ancient
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