What does Psalms Chapter 114 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Past hearing accompanies future invocation and pleasing. The speaker recalls deliverance from death, tears and falling. The command to return to rest stays distinct from achieved rest.

Chapter breakdown

Dilexi is the incipit, followed by the heading’s description of confidence in affliction and Alleluia. The speaker has loved because the Lord will hear his prayer; the Lord has inclined an ear, and he will call throughout his days. Future hearing and invocation are not made present accomplishments.

Sorrows of death and perils of hell found him in trouble and sorrow. He invoked the Lord’s name asking delivery of his soul. The merciful, just Lord shows mercy and keeps little ones; humbled, the speaker was delivered. Little ones is retained rather than silently changed to simple people.

He tells his soul to return to rest because the Lord has dealt bountifully. He recalls soul delivered from death, eyes from tears and feet from falling, and promises to please the Lord in the land of the living. The command to return to rest supplies no completed peace report, particular illness or temple scene.

The story inside

Opening: Past hearing accompanies future invocation and pleasing. Development: The speaker recalls deliverance from death, tears and falling. Conclusion: The command to return to rest stays distinct from achieved rest.

Lessons worth keeping

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Past hearing accompanies future invocation and pleasing.
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The speaker recalls deliverance from death, tears and falling.
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The command to return to rest stays distinct from achieved rest.

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 65162–65165
114:1. I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. 114:2. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.
Lines 65177–65181
114:7. Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee. 114:8. For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.