_Canticle. In which David, (Haydock) or the Jews, at their return, after they had got the better of their enemies, render thanks to God. (St. Chrysostom) (Calmet) --- It may suit the Church, Jesus Christ, and every person: as none can escape trouble. (Berthier) --- Fought against. Hebrew, "afflicted... [ Continue Reading ]
_But. Or "for," etenim. On this account they repeated their attacks. (Haydock) --- But the psalmist testifies that they will not succeed. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Back. Hebrew, "labourers have laboured on my neck," (St. Jerome) or "back." They have made me bear the yoke, or have ploughed up my back. This proverbial expression shews the cruelty of the Babylonians, (Calmet) and of the enemies of Christ, (Isaias l. 6.) and the martyrs. (Theodoret) --- Hebrew ch... [ Continue Reading ]
_Necks. Hebrew, "collars," (Theodotion) "snares," (Symmachus) or "bands," with which they have oppressed us. Cyrus abandoned the Babylonians to be slaves of those Persians who had taken them, and made them till the land, &c. (Zenoph. vii.) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Back. By a sincere conversion. (Calmet) --- God will cover the presumptuous with eternal confusion, so that none shall bless them, ver. 8. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
PSALM CXXVIII. (S\'c6PE EXPUGNAVERUNT.) The Church of God is invincible: her persecutors come to nothing. _ Houses. Which were flat, so that grass might grow, but the heat of the climate would not suffer it to come to perfection. --- Up. (St. Jerome) --- Chaldean, "flourish," as some copies of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Upon you. Chaldean adds, "and they did not reply." --- We, &c. (Haydock) --- The custom of blessing reapers continued in the days of St. Augustine, Ruth ii. 4. (Calmet) --- The wicked render themselves incapable of deriving benefit from the good wishes of others. (Berthier)_... [ Continue Reading ]