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Psalm 30 (31) Catholic Public Domain Version

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Notes on this text (4)

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David according to an ecstasy. 2 In you, Lord, I have hoped; let me never be confounded. In your justice, deliver me. 3 Incline your ear to me. Hasten to rescue me. Be for me a protector God and a house of refuge, so as to accomplish my salvation. 4 For you are my strength and my refuge; and for the sake of your name, you will lead me and nourish me. 5 You will lead me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me. For you are my protector. 6 Into your hands, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth. 7 You have hated those who practice emptiness to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord. 8 I will exult and rejoice in your mercy. For you have looked upon my humility; you have saved my soul from needfulness. 9 And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place. 10 Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am troubled. My eye has been disturbed by wrath, along with my soul and my gut. 11 For my life has fallen into sorrow, and my years into sighing. My virtue has been weakened in poverty, and my bones have been disturbed. 12 I have become a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more so to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who catch sight of me, flee away from me. 13 I have become forgotten, like one dead to the heart. I have become like a damaged utensil. 14 For I have heard the harsh criticism of many who linger in the area. While assembled together against me in that place, they deliberated on how to take away my life. 15 But I have hoped in you, O Lord. I said, “You are my God.” 16 My fate is in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who are persecuting me. 17 Shine your face upon your servant. Save me in your mercy. 18 Do not let me be confounded, Lord, for I have called upon you. Let the impious be ashamed and be drawn down into Hell. 19 May deceitful lips be silenced: those that speak iniquity against the just, in arrogance and in abusiveness. 20 How great is the multitude of your sweetness, O Lord, which you keep hidden for those who fear you, which you have perfected for those who hope in you, in the sight of the sons of men. 21 You hide them in the concealment of your face, from the disturbance of men. You protect them in your tabernacle, from the contradiction of tongues. 22 Blessed is the Lord. For he has shown his wonderful mercy to me, in a fortified city. 23 But I said in the excess of my mind: “I have been cast away from the glance of your eyes.” And so, you heeded the voice of my prayer, while I was still crying out to you. 24 Love the Lord, all you his saints. For the Lord will require truth, and he will abundantly repay those who act with arrogance. 25 Act manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all you who hope in the Lord.

Cross references (25)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.

  1. 1 Romans 10:11; Psalm 25:2; Psalm 71:1–3; Psalm 22:4–5; Psalm 143:1
  2. 2 Romans 10:11; Psalm 25:2; Psalm 71:1–3; Psalm 22:4–5; Psalm 143:1
  3. 3 Psalm 71:2–3; Psalm 102:2; Psalm 86:1; Deuteronomy 32:31; 1 John 4:15–16
  4. 4 Psalm 143:10–11; Isaiah 49:10; Psalm 25:5; John 16:13; Luke 1:79
  5. 5 Psalm 25:15; Psalm 140:5; Psalm 19:14; 2 Timothy 2:26; Psalm 57:6
  6. 6 Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59; Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 71:23; 1 Peter 1:18–19
  7. 7 Psalm 26:5; Jonah 2:8; Jeremiah 10:15; 1 Corinthians 10:20; Psalm 24:4
  8. 8 Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 63:9; Psalm 119:153; 2 Timothy 2:19; Galatians 4:9
  9. 9 Job 36:16; Psalm 18:19; Psalm 4:1; Deuteronomy 32:30; 1 Samuel 17:46
  10. 10 Psalm 6:7; Psalm 88:9; Psalm 73:26; Job 17:7; Psalm 73:14
  11. 11 Psalm 32:3–4; Psalm 38:3; Psalm 88:15; Romans 9:2; Psalm 78:33
  12. 12 Psalm 38:11; Psalm 88:8; Matthew 26:56; Psalm 88:18; Psalm 41:8–9
  13. 13 Psalm 88:4–5; Psalm 119:83; Romans 9:21–22; Isaiah 30:14; Psalm 2:9
  14. 14 Jeremiah 20:10; Matthew 27:1; Lamentations 2:22; 1 Samuel 20:33; Psalm 101:5
  15. 15 Psalm 56:3–4; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 43:5; Psalm 16:1–2; Psalm 140:6
  16. 16 Acts 1:7; John 17:1; Ecclesiastes 3:1–8; John 7:6; Psalm 142:6
  17. 17 Psalm 4:6; Psalm 6:4; Psalm 80:3; Daniel 9:9; Romans 9:15
  18. 18 Psalm 25:2–3; Jeremiah 20:11; Psalm 115:17; Psalm 34:5; Isaiah 41:11–12
  19. 19 Jude 15; Psalm 94:4; 1 Samuel 2:3; Isaiah 54:17; Psalm 64:3–4
  20. 20 1 Corinthians 2:9; Isaiah 64:4; Lamentations 3:23–25; 1 Peter 1:4–5; Colossians 3:2–4
  21. 21 Psalm 27:5; Psalm 32:7; Psalm 91:1–4; Job 5:21; Psalm 64:2–4
  22. 22 1 Samuel 23:7–13; Psalm 17:7; Jeremiah 1:18; 1 Peter 2:9; Psalm 118:23
  23. 23 Psalm 116:11; Hebrews 5:7; Psalm 6:9; Psalm 88:16; Ezekiel 37:11
  24. 24 Psalm 97:10; Psalm 94:2; Psalm 145:20; John 10:27–30; Psalm 34:9
  25. 25 Psalm 27:14; Psalm 146:5; Isaiah 35:3–4; Colossians 1:11; Psalm 29:11

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 31.

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XXX)

    To the end, a Psalm of the joy of the Resurrection, and the change, the renewing of the body to an immortal state, and not only of the Lord, but also of the whole Church.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 31:6 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book VIII)

    But the Lord God was the hope of Thy servant, and He regarded not vanities and lying madness.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 31:19 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XXI, Chapters 17–19)

    However, they think that the divine oracles are not altogether silent on this point; for they ask to what purpose is it said, "How great is Thy goodness which Thou hast hidden for them that fear Thee," if it be not to teach us that the great and hidden sweetness of God's mercy is concealed in order that men may …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  4. Quotes verse 31:19 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XXI, Chapters 22–24)

    But that these perversely compassionate persons may see what is the purport of these words, "How great is the abundance of Thy sweetness, Lord, which Thou hast hidden for them that fear Thee," let them read what follows: "And Thou hast perfected it for them that hope in Thee." For what means, "Thou hast hidden it for them that fear …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)