Truly my soul waits upon God: from him comes my salvation.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Subject. The just is resigned, though he feel like other men. David found a sort of resentment against the rebels, arising in his breast, which he presently repressed, by the thought of God's will, 2 Kings xii. 11. (Calmet)
He fears nothing, because his soul is subject to God. (Worthington)
Hebrew, "silent. "(Haydock)
Idithun, to sing. (Worthington)
He was one of the chief musicians under David, 1 Paralipomenon xxv. 3. The psalm may be explained of David, persecuted by Absalom, (Calmet) of the Machabees, (Theodoret), or of Christ, and his Church. (Calmet)
St. Jerome considers it as a piece of excellent morality, (Calmet) and this may suffice, without referring it to any historical fact. (Berthier)
