Psalms 64:1

Verse 1. Of the captivity. That is, the people of the captivity of Babylon. This is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the ancient translation of the Septuagint. Challoner.—From the word canticle. Bible.—It is of little authority. Jeremias and Ezechiel were never together. Calmet. Bert.—Perhaps the former might have put this psalm of David into the hands of the people, when they were going to Babylon, and Ezechiel might have exhorted them to recite it at their return. Bible.—It seems to have been composed by David, in thanksgiving for rain; (Psalms 28. Muis.) or some of the Levites wrote it, after God had removed the scourge of drought, with which he had afflicted the people, in consequence of their neglecting to finish the temple. Agg. 1:4. Malachi 3:9. Calmet.—David predicts the return from captivity, (Bert.) and the vocation of the Gentiles, (S. Hil. and so forth Menochius.) which the prophets Jeremias, and so forth had insinuated, by the coming of the nations from Babylon, so as to forsake idolatry. Saint Augustine and so forth Worthington.