I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
8. "I will be glad, and rejoice in Thy mercy:" which doth not deceive me. "For Thou hast regarded My humiliation:" wherein Thou hast subjected me to vanity in hope. "Thou hast saved my soul from necessities" (ver. 7). Thou hast saved my soul from the necessities of fear, that with a free love it may serve Thee.
Humility. Hebrew, "affliction, thou hast known the tribulations of my soul. "(St. Jerome) (Haydock)
Thou hast often rescued me from my enemies; and canst thou behold my present distress without pity? (Calmet)
when God knows his friend to be in misery, he does not fail to relieve him. (Berthier)
