But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Sepulchre, which never says there is enough. Proverbs 30:15. Calmet.—Dealt, and so forth Saint Paul authorizes this version, (Romans 3:13) though the Hebrew be rendered, “they flatter cunning;” (Bert.) or “they sharpen their tongue,” and polish it like a sword, that it may cut more easily. This may be applied to heretics. SS. Athan. Chrys. Jer. Calmet.—Judge, or “condemn them.” Hebrew may be explained as a prediction. Bert.—The Holy Ghost could not dictate an imprecation or desire revenge. But David might beg that God would frustrate the designs of his enemies; and, by treating them with some severity, hinder the execution of their wicked schemes, which would bring on their own ruin. Saint John Chrysostom Saint Augustine Calmet.—Though the just desire the conversion of all, yet if any die impenitent, they approve of God’s judgment, manifested at the end of the world. Worthington.—Provoked. Hebrew “rebelled against.” I forgive them for what they have done to me. But I grieve at thy offence; make them return to a sense of their duty. Calmet.—He might abhor the enemies of salvation, the world, and so forth whom Christ has condemned. Bert.