We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Understanding. See Psalm xli. (Menochius)
David or the Corites composed this piece, to comfort the just under persecution. (Berthier)
It may allude to the situation of the Jews at Babylon, (Calmet) or under Antiochus Epiphanes, (Ven. Bede) though St. Paul, (Romans viii. 36.) applies ver. 22. to the persecutions of the primitive Christians, which seems to shew, that the whole psalm refers to them, (Berthier) as the Fathers have explained it. Yet it may literally be understood of the Israelites (Calmet) also, (Haydock) as well as the Christian martyrs, since all things happened to the Israelites in figure. (Worthington)
