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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Psalm 90 v15 - Rising glorified with Christ


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Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Folio 27v -
David Imagines Christ Elevated Above All Other Beings
the Musée Condé, Chantilly

Clamábit ad me, et ego exáudiam eum: cum ipso sum in tribulatióne: erípiam eum et glorificábo eum.
He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

Understanding the Latin

The key vocabulary is:

clamo, avi, atum, are  to call, cry out; to call to or upon for aid.
exaudio, ivi, Itum, ire, to hear, hearken to, listen to, give heed to; to regard, answer.
tribulatio, onis, f. , trouble, distress, anguish, affliction, tribulation
eripio, ripui, reptum, ere 3  to snatch away, to rescue, deliver.
glorifico, avi, atum, are  to praise, glorify, exalt

This verse continues the list of promises God makes to the person who trusts in him.  Word by word:
 Clamábit (he will call) ad (to) me (me), et (and) ego (I) exáudiam (I will hear) eum (him): cum (when/with) ipso (he himself) sum (I am) in (in) tribulatióne (trouble/distress): erípiam (I will rescue) eum (him) et (and) glorificábo (I will glorify) eum (him).

The key translation issue is how to render ‘glorificabo’.  Applied to Christ, the Douay-Rheims’ version, ‘I will glorify’ makes perfect sense; but other translations perhaps strive to give it a more general application by rendering it ‘I will honour him’ or ‘bring him to honour’.

Douay-Rheims
He shall cry to me, and I will hear him:
I am with him in tribulation,
I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.
Monastic Diurnal
He will call upon Me and I will hear him,
I will be with him in need,
I will rescue him and bring him to honour.
Brenton
He shall call upon me, and I will hearken to him:
I am with him in affliction;
and I will deliver him, and glorify him.
RSV
When he calls to me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will rescue him and honor him.
Coverdale
He shall call upon me, and I will hear him.
Yea, I am with him in trouble;
I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.
Knox
when he calls upon me, I will listen,
in affliction I am at his side,
to bring him safety and honour.
Grail
When he calls I shall answer:
"I am with you," I will save him in distress and give him glory.

The sacred Triduum

This verse sets out four promises or prophesies, which can be read as specific references to the events of the Sacred Triduum: he will call on me; I will hear him; I will save him; and I will glorify him.

St Robert Bellarmine saw these as fulfilled in the days of the Sacred Triduum and Easter Sunday:
“…the Friday on which the Lord, hanging on his cross, was in his greatest tribulation; the Saturday on which he rested in peace from all his troubles; and the Sunday on which, by rising from the dead, he had a most glorious triumph.”

He then points to the importance of this motif in our lives on this earth and in heaven, a message arguably reflected in the little Triduum effected in the Benedictine Office each week:
All the just and the elect have three such days before them; for, with Christ, we must all go through our own tribulations on Friday, that is, in this life, which is the shortest, and is counted but as one day; we must rest in the sepulchre on the Saturday; and, finally, rise on Sunday, and be glorified with Christ.

God’s enduring protection of his Church

Yet the Passion of Christ goes beyond those three days: rather it reopens the way to heaven for his people, and has several practical effects. 

The first commitment is that God will hear our prayer, a promise echoed in many other places in Scripture.
though certain conditions are necessary to have our prayer heard, the principal one is that which is expressed here, when he says, "he shall cry to me;" which implies a vehement desire, springing from confidence and love.

St Cassidorus linked the commitment to deliver us to the promise Christ made on the protection of his Church:
He says: I am with him in tribulation, with reference to this world where devoted hearts are afflicted with more searing hardships; so Christ Himself says in the gospel: Behold, I am with you even to the consummation of the world.

He also saw the verse as pointing to our ultimate end:

The just man is accordingly to be delivered from this world and glorified when he is set in blessedness where affliction will no longer have a place.

The sleeping Christ and sleeping in Christ

The reminder of our ultimate end is of course, particularly apt for Compline in the traditional Benedictine form, certainly seeks to remind us that sleep is a little death, and thus before we sleep we should remind ourselves and entrust ourselves to God in the hope of heaven.

But St Augustine put this verse in a context particularly apt to its use at Compline for those dealing with problems in the here and now, reminding us of the Gospel story of Christ sleeping in the boat while it was tossed about by a storm.  If we are in trouble, he instructs, awake Christ and ask for his help:
Fear not when you are in trouble, as if the Lord were not with you. Let faith be with you, and God is with you in your trouble. There are waves on the sea, and you are tossed in your bark, because Christ sleeps. Christ slept in the ship, while the men were perishing. If your faith sleep in your heart, Christ is as it were sleeping in your ship: because Christ dwells in you through faith, when you begin to be tossed, awake Christ sleeping: rouse up your faith, and you shall be assured that He deserts you not. But you think you are forsaken, because He rescues you not when you yourself dost wish. He delivered the Three Children from the fire? Did He, who did this, desert the Maccabees? God forbid! He delivered both of these: the first bodily, that the faithless might be confounded; the last spiritually, that the faithful might imitate them. I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.


Psalm 90: Qui habitat 
Vulgate
Douay-Rheims
Laus cantici David.
The praise of a canticle for David
Qui hábitat in adjutório Altíssimi, * in protectióne Dei cæli commorábitur.
He that dwells in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.
2  Dicet Dómino : Suscéptor meus es tu, et refúgium meum: * Deus meus sperábo in eum.
He shall say to the Lord: You are my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.
3 Quóniam ipse liberávit me de láqueo venántium, * et a verbo áspero.
For he has delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.
4  Scápulis suis obumbrábit tibi: * et sub pennis ejus sperábis.
He will overshadow you with his shoulders: and under his wings you shall trust.
5  Scuto circúmdabit te véritas ejus: * non timébis a timóre noctúrno.
His truth shall compass you with a shield: you shall not be afraid of the terror of the night.
6  A sagítta volánte in die, a negótio perambulánte in ténebris: * ab incúrsu et dæmónio meridiáno.
Of the arrow that flies in the day, of the business that walks about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.
 Cadent a látere tuo mille, et decem míllia a dextris tuis: * ad te autem non appropinquábit.
A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand: but it shall not come near you.
8  Verúmtamen óculis tuis considerábis: * et retributiónem peccatórum vidébis.
But you shall consider with your eyes: and shall see the reward of the wicked.
9  Quóniam tu es, Dómine, spes mea: * Altíssimum posuísti refúgium tuum.
Because you, O Lord, are my hope: you have made the most High your refuge.
10  Non accédet ad te malum: * et flagéllum non appropinquábit tabernáculo tuo.
There shall no evil come to you: nor shall the scourge come near your dwelling.
11  Quóniam Angelis suis mandávit de te: * ut custódiant te in ómnibus viis tuis.
For he has given his angels charge over you; to keep you in all your ways.
12  In mánibus portábunt te: * ne forte offéndas ad lápidem pedem tuum.
In their hands they shall bear you up: lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13  Super áspidem et basilíscum ambulábis: * et conculcábis leónem et dracónem.
You shall walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and you shall trample under foot the lion and the dragon.
14  Quóniam in me sperávit, liberábo eum: * prótegam eum quóniam cognóvit nomen meum.
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he has known my name.
15  Clamábit ad me, et ego exáudiam eum : * cum ipso sum in tribulatióne : erípiam eum et glorificábo eum.
He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.
16  Longitúdine diérum replébo eum: * et osténdam illi salutáre meum.
I will fill him with length of days; and I will show him my salvation.

And you can find the next part of this series here.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Psalm 90 v14 - Everything depends on grace

 


Quóniam in me sperávit, liberábo eum: prótegam eum quóniam cognóvit nomen meum.
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he has known my name.

In the last three verses of Psalm 90, the voice of the speaker changes again, with its eight promises reading as an oracular pronouncement by God himself.  

Looking at the Latin

A word by word crib the Vulgate runs as follows:
Quóniam (for/because) in (in) me (me) sperávit (he hoped), liberábo (I will free/deliver) eum (him): * prótegam (I will protect) eum (him) quóniam (because) cognóvit (he knew/has known) nomen (name) meum (mine).
The key word in this verse vocabulary-wise is cognosco (gnovi, gnitum, ere 3), which is usually translated as to know, see, learn, perceive, become acquainted with.  The Lewis and Short Dictionary, however, provides three strands of meaning, all of which are relevant to the various interpretations of the verse:
  • To become thoroughly acquainted with, to learn by inquiring, to examine, investigate, perceive, see, understand, learn;
  • To recognize that which is already known, acknowledge, identify; and
  • To seek or strive to know something, to inquire into, to investigate, examine, with an implication of exertion.
Text variants

It is also worth noting that the Neo-Vulgate and other translations provide alternate readings of the verse. 

14  
V
Quóniam in me sperávit, liberábo eum: *
prótegam eum quóniam cognóvit nomen meum.
PIAN
 Quoniam mihi adhaesit, liberabo eum;
Protegam eum, quia cognovit nomen meum.
Neo-Vulgate
Quoniam mihi adhaesit, liberabo eum;
suscipiam eum, quoniam cognovit nomen meum.
Jerome from the Hebrew
Quoniam mihi adhaesit, et liberabo eum:
exaltabo eum, quoniam cognouit nomen meum.
ὅτι ἐμὲ ἤλπισεν καὶ ῥύσομαι αὐτόν
σκεπάσω αὐτόν ὅτι ἔγνω τὸ ὄνομά μου

First, while the Vulgate uses speravit or ‘he has hoped’; the Neo-Vulgate changes the verb to adhaesit, which means clung to, cleaved or held fast to.  Many of the English translations use this verb as a cue to refer to the virtue of charity, whereas the translations reflecting the Vulgate put greater emphasis on the theological virtue of hope. 

There are curious variants in the second phrase too: the Vulgate says ‘I will protect him (protegam eum)’, which has a connotation of offering shelter, thus linking back to the first four verses of the psalm, and the hen or eagle guarding her young.  By contrast, the neo-Vulgate uses ‘suscipiam’. 

Douay-Rheims
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him:
I will protect him because he has known my name.
Monastic Diurnal
Because he hath put his trust in Me, I will deliver him;
I will protect him because he hath known My Name.
Brenton
For he has hoped in me, and I will deliver him:
I will protect him, because he has known my name.
RSV
Because he cleaves to me in love, I will deliver him;
 I will protect him, because he knows my name.
Coverdale
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him;
I will set him up, because he hath known my Name.
Knox
He trusts in me, mine it is to rescue him;
he acknowledges my name, from me he shall have protection;
Grail
Since he clings to me in love, I will free him;
protect you for he knows my name.

What does it mean to ‘know God’s name’?

The reference to knowing God’s name can be interpreted several ways.

St Jerome suggested that first and foremost it was a reference to Christ’s relationship to the Father:
If the entire psalm applies to the savior, just as you are interpreting it, O devil, then the words: ‘I will protect him because he acknowledges my name’ also apply to the Savior and mean, I, the Father, will protect My Son.

But it can also be applied to us. 

To know God’s name, St Cassiodorus, suggests, means acknowledging Christ’s divinity:
He knows the Father's name, and he considers the Son to be no less than the Father, not regarding Him as a created Being, as some wholly deranged persons do,' but rather with sound mind proclaiming Him Creator.

St Robert Bellarmine’s commentary suggested that those who know God’s name are those who have a personal relationship with him, and can call him friend and father:
They, too, are said "to know his name," who are on familiar terms with God, and know him as a pastor, a friend, and a father, speaking of which our Savior says, "I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep, and my sheep know me;" and, on the other hand, speaking of the others, he says, "I know you not;" and "In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God." Wonderful altogether is God's kindness to man, when he speaks to him not only as a Lord but as a friend, and no wonder David should exclaim: "Lord, what is man that thou art made known to him?"

The twentieth century commentator Fr Boylan went a step further, pointing to the importance of knowledge of God:
he knows his names and hence how to rightly invoke the Lord and ask his help.  He knows the real character of God, is the possessor of special, revealed knowledge concerning him.  Knowledge necessarily affects conduct, for rightly to know God is to love him.  The one who knows God and therefore loves him keeps his commandments and must enjoy prosperity and honour.

In sum, then, this verse reminds us that ultimately everything depends on the grace of God and our graced response to him in the form of the virtues of charity, hope and faith, for which the phrase ‘knowing God’s name’ is a form of shorthand.


Psalm 90: Qui habitat 
Vulgate
Douay-Rheims
Laus cantici David.
The praise of a canticle for David
Qui hábitat in adjutório Altíssimi, * in protectióne Dei cæli commorábitur.
He that dwells in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.
2  Dicet Dómino : Suscéptor meus es tu, et refúgium meum: * Deus meus sperábo in eum.
He shall say to the Lord: You are my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.
3 Quóniam ipse liberávit me de láqueo venántium, * et a verbo áspero.
For he has delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.
4  Scápulis suis obumbrábit tibi: * et sub pennis ejus sperábis.
He will overshadow you with his shoulders: and under his wings you shall trust.
5  Scuto circúmdabit te véritas ejus: * non timébis a timóre noctúrno.
His truth shall compass you with a shield: you shall not be afraid of the terror of the night.
6  A sagítta volánte in die, a negótio perambulánte in ténebris: * ab incúrsu et dæmónio meridiáno.
Of the arrow that flies in the day, of the business that walks about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.
 Cadent a látere tuo mille, et decem míllia a dextris tuis: * ad te autem non appropinquábit.
A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand: but it shall not come near you.
8  Verúmtamen óculis tuis considerábis: * et retributiónem peccatórum vidébis.
But you shall consider with your eyes: and shall see the reward of the wicked.
9  Quóniam tu es, Dómine, spes mea: * Altíssimum posuísti refúgium tuum.
Because you, O Lord, are my hope: you have made the most High your refuge.
10  Non accédet ad te malum: * et flagéllum non appropinquábit tabernáculo tuo.
There shall no evil come to you: nor shall the scourge come near your dwelling.
11  Quóniam Angelis suis mandávit de te: * ut custódiant te in ómnibus viis tuis.
For he has given his angels charge over you; to keep you in all your ways.
12  In mánibus portábunt te: * ne forte offéndas ad lápidem pedem tuum.
In their hands they shall bear you up: lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13  Super áspidem et basilíscum ambulábis: * et conculcábis leónem et dracónem.
You shall walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and you shall trample under foot the lion and the dragon.
14  Quóniam in me sperávit, liberábo eum: * prótegam eum quóniam cognóvit nomen meum.
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he has known my name.
15  Clamábit ad me, et ego exáudiam eum : * cum ipso sum in tribulatióne : erípiam eum et glorificábo eum.
He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.
16  Longitúdine diérum replébo eum: * et osténdam illi salutáre meum.
I will fill him with length of days; and I will show him my salvation.

And you can find the next part of this series here.

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Psalm 90 v13 - Trampling down the devil

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Ravenna, c6th
Picture credit: José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro (Wiki Commons)

Super áspidem et basilíscum ambulábis: et conculcábis leónem et dracónem.
You shall walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and you shall trample under foot the lion and the dragon.

Verse 13 of Psalm 90 is particularly important, since, as St John Cassian pointed out, it is the one the devil deliberately omits in his debate with Christ in the desert:
For so the devil in the gospel when tempting the Lord said: If You are the Son of God, cast Yourself down. For it is written that He shall give His angels charge concerning You to keep You in all Your ways. And when he had said this, he left out the context and what belongs to it; viz., You shall walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and you shall trample under foot the lion and the dragon. Surely he cunningly quoted the previous verse and left out the latter: for he quoted the one to deceive Him: he held his tongue about the latter to avoid condemning himself. For he knew that he himself was signified by the asp and basilisk, the lion and dragon in the Prophet's words.  On the Incarnation, ch 16

Looking at the Latin

Key vocab:

aspis, idis, f a kind of small, venomous serpent, an asp, adder, viper.
basiliscus, i, m.  a basilisk, a kind of venomous serpent.
ambulo, avi, atum, are to walk, the manner in which one orders one's life
conculco, avi, atum, are  to trample upon, tread under foot; fig., to despise, treat with contempt.
leo, leonis, m. a lion; fig., a man of a cruel, bloodthirsty, or malevolent disposition
draco, onis, m. dragon

A word by word translation crib for the Vulgate is:
 Super (on/upon/over) áspidem (the asp) et (and) basilíscum (the basilisk) ambulábis (you shall walk): et (and) conculcábis (you shall trample/tread underfoot) leónem (the lion) et (and) dracónem (the dragon).

An asp (aspidem) is a small venomous serpent; a basilisk (basiliscum) another type of snake.  The Pian translation (and the Monastic Diurnal), makes it instead an asp and adder.

13 
V/NV
Super áspidem et basilíscum ambulábis:
et conculcábis leónem et dracónem.
Pian
Super aspidem et viperam gradieris,
Conculcabis leonem et draconem.
JH
Super aspidem et basiliscum calcabis :
conculcabis leonem et draconem.


ὅτι ἐμὲ ἤλπισεν καὶ ῥύσομαι αὐτόν σκεπάσω
αὐτόν ὅτι ἔγνω τὸ ὄνομά μου

There are also considerable variances in the English translations:

DR
You shall walk upon the asp and the basilisk:
and you shall trample under foot the lion and the dragon.
MD
Thou shalt tread upon the asp and the adder,
the lion and the dragon shalt though trample under foot.
Brenton
Thou shalt tread on the asp and basilisk:
and thou shalt trample on the lion and dragon.
RSV
You will tread on the lion and the adder,
the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.
Coverdale
Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder;
the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.
Knox
Thou shalt tread safely on asp and adder,
crush lion and serpent under thy feet.
Grail
On the lion and the viper you will tread
and trample the young lion and the dragon.

The many faces of the devil

Whatever the selection though, asps, adders, basilisks, lions and dragons are all are used to designate the devil in various places of Scripture. 

The Fathers and Theologians offer an interesting variety of just which threats and dimensions of the devil they are intended to represent.

St Augustine, for example, saw the serpent references as to the attacks of the devil on the church collectively: the lion represents open attacks from outside the Church; the dragon the secret subversion attack of heresy within.

St Alphonsus Liguori, by contrast, pointed to various spiritual dangers to the individual:
In a spiritual sense, by the asp is understood the demon who inspires despair; by the basilisk, the demon who inspires presumption; by the lion, pride; and by the dragon, attachment to earthly goods.

Others, though, pointed to the various beasts as symbolizing the type of attack.  St Cassiodorus, for example, argued that:
He is the asp when he strikes covertly; the basilisk when he openly spreads poison; the lion when he attacks the innocent; the dragon when he devours with wicked greed those who are off their guard.

Similarly St Robert Bellarmine suggested that:
He calls Satan a serpent, by reason of his cunning, and a lion, by reason of his ferocity; and, as there are various sorts of serpents, he calls him an asp, a basilisk, and a dragon, for to the cunning that is common to all serpents, the asp unites obstinacy, the basilisk cruelty, and the dragon great strength and power, for all of which Satan is remarkable…

Christ trampling down the serpents and beasts

Whatever the form of the attack though, the key point of the verse is that Christ will overcome it, and there are obvious resonances with both Genesis and Revelation (see esp 20:2) in it.  One of the key allusions though is to Isaiah 11:
And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root….The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them. The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.

As a result, Christ in triumph trampling down the beasts and serpents was a frequent subject of early iconography, as the picture above illustrates.  

The previous verse tells of the help of the good angels; this verse promises us that we – through the victory of Christ - will ultimately triumph over evil, and the fallen angels including Satan. 

St Iraenaeus of Lyon, for example, expounded the verse as follows:
But He set a bound to his [state of] sin, by interposing death, and thus causing sin to cease, putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh, which should take place in the earth, so that man, ceasing at length to live to sin, and dying to it, might begin to live to God. For this end did He put enmity between the serpent and the woman and her seed, they keeping it up mutually: He, the sole of whose foot should be bitten, having power also to tread upon the enemy’s head; but the other biting, killing, and impeding the steps of man, until the seed did come appointed to tread down his head, - which was born of Mary, of whom the prophet speaks: “Thou shalt tread upon the asp and the basilisk; thou shalt trample down the lion and the dragon;” - indicating that sin, which was set up and spread out against man, and which rendered him subject to death, should be deprived of its power, along with death, which rules [over men]; and that the lion, that is, antichrist, rampant against mankind in the latter days, should be trampled down by Him; and that He should bind “the dragon, that old serpent” and subject him to the power of man, who had been conquered so that all his might should be trodden down. Now Adam had been conquered, all life having been taken away from him: wherefore, when the foe was conquered in his turn, Adam received new life; and the last enemy, death, is destroyed, which at the first had taken possession of man. Against Heresies, 3.23.7 c180
   

Psalm 90: Qui habitat 
Vulgate
Douay-Rheims
Laus cantici David.
The praise of a canticle for David
Qui hábitat in adjutório Altíssimi, * in protectióne Dei cæli commorábitur.
He that dwells in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.
2  Dicet Dómino : Suscéptor meus es tu, et refúgium meum: * Deus meus sperábo in eum.
He shall say to the Lord: You are my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.
3 Quóniam ipse liberávit me de láqueo venántium, * et a verbo áspero.
For he has delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.
4  Scápulis suis obumbrábit tibi: * et sub pennis ejus sperábis.
He will overshadow you with his shoulders: and under his wings you shall trust.
5  Scuto circúmdabit te véritas ejus: * non timébis a timóre noctúrno.
His truth shall compass you with a shield: you shall not be afraid of the terror of the night.
6  A sagítta volánte in die, a negótio perambulánte in ténebris: * ab incúrsu et dæmónio meridiáno.
Of the arrow that flies in the day, of the business that walks about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.
 Cadent a látere tuo mille, et decem míllia a dextris tuis: * ad te autem non appropinquábit.
A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand: but it shall not come near you.
8  Verúmtamen óculis tuis considerábis: * et retributiónem peccatórum vidébis.
But you shall consider with your eyes: and shall see the reward of the wicked.
9  Quóniam tu es, Dómine, spes mea: * Altíssimum posuísti refúgium tuum.
Because you, O Lord, are my hope: you have made the most High your refuge.
10  Non accédet ad te malum: * et flagéllum non appropinquábit tabernáculo tuo.
There shall no evil come to you: nor shall the scourge come near your dwelling.
11  Quóniam Angelis suis mandávit de te: * ut custódiant te in ómnibus viis tuis.
For he has given his angels charge over you; to keep you in all your ways.
12  In mánibus portábunt te: * ne forte offéndas ad lápidem pedem tuum.
In their hands they shall bear you up: lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13  Super áspidem et basilíscum ambulábis: * et conculcábis leónem et dracónem.
You shall walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and you shall trample under foot the lion and the dragon.
14  Quóniam in me sperávit, liberábo eum: * prótegam eum quóniam cognóvit nomen meum.
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he has known my name.
15  Clamábit ad me, et ego exáudiam eum : * cum ipso sum in tribulatióne : erípiam eum et glorificábo eum.
He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.
16  Longitúdine diérum replébo eum: * et osténdam illi salutáre meum.
I will fill him with length of days; and I will show him my salvation.

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