What does Psalms Chapter 64 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The Latin incipit is Te decet. The speaker’s requests, recollections and future declarations retain their distinct wording. Edition interpretation remains separate, and the chapter does not establish a universal outcome guarantee.

Chapter breakdown

The Latin incipit is Te decet. The separate heading anticipates all nations called to praise in God's church. The inscription names David's psalm and Jeremias and Ezechiel's canticle to captives beginning to go out. The separate note identifies Babylon and says this inscription is absent from Hebrew but present in the ancient Septuagint translation. A hymn befits God in Sion and a vow shall be paid in Jerusalem. The speaker asks hearing, says all flesh shall come and the wicked's words prevailed, with future pardon of transgressions.

The chosen one shall dwell in courts and the speakers shall be filled with the holy temple's good things. They ask their savior, wonderful in justice and hope of earth's ends and distant sea, to hear. God prepares mountains in strength and troubles the sea's depths and waves, not calms them. Gentiles shall be troubled and border dwellers afraid at signs, with morning and evening made joyful.

God visited, watered and enriched earth, His river full and food prepared. The speaker asks streams filled and fruits multiplied, anticipating growth and joy in showers. God shall bless the year's crown, fields' plenty, wilderness fatness and hills' joy. Rams are clothed and vales shall abound with corn, shout and sing. These future harvest images do not establish an already completed agricultural season or famine threat.

The story inside

Opening: The Latin incipit is Te decet. Development: The speaker’s requests, recollections and future declarations retain their distinct wording. Conclusion: Edition interpretation remains separate, and the chapter does not establish a universal outcome guarantee.

Lessons worth keeping

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The Latin incipit is Te decet.
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The speaker’s requests, recollections and future declarations retain their distinct wording.
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Edition interpretation remains separate, and the chapter does not establish a universal outcome guarantee.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 61408–61410
Of the captivity.... That is, the people of the captivity of Babylon. This is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the ancient translation of the Septuagint.
Lines 61412–61413
A hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem.
Lines 61424–61425
Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.
Lines 61437–61439
Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.
Lines 61444–61445
Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy fields shall be filled with plenty.