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Chapter 74 · Douay–Rheims / Challoner

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Chapter LXXIV · Location 74 of 150

Chapter 74 · Open to read

From Psalms · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)

What does Psalms Chapter 74 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The Latin incipit is Confitebimur tibi. The speaker’s recollections, requests and future declarations remain distinct. Edition explanations remain attributed; practical case details and universal guarantees are not invented.

Chapter breakdown

The Latin incipit is Confitebimur tibi. The separate heading warns of coming just judgment. The inscription is unto the end, corrupt not, a canticle's psalm for Asaph. The note says corrupt not is believed to begin an ode or hymn supplying a tune, or, with Augustine and fathers, an admonition to persevere in hope and good until recompense. The speakers will praise, call the name and relate wonders, rather than report a completed performance.

The first-person words say judgment of justices will occur when a time is taken. The separate note interprets proper times, particularly last day, the melting earth and original foundations. The verse says earth and dwellers are melted and its pillars established, not merely a hypothetical disturbance. Wicked people are told not to act wickedly, lift the horn or speak iniquity against God. East, west and desert hills are named before God as judge putting one down and another up; no particular ruler or promotion scheme is supplied.

The Lord's cup holds strong mixed wine, poured from this to that, with dregs not emptied and all sinners to drink. It does not specifically say every sinner drains the dregs to the bottom. The speaker will declare and sing to Jacob's God and break sinners' horns, with just people's horns to be exalted. Verse speech and the separate divine-judge interpretation remain distinct.

The story inside

Opening: The Latin incipit is Confitebimur tibi. Development: The speaker’s recollections, requests and future declarations remain distinct. Conclusion: Edition explanations remain attributed; practical case details and universal guarantees are not invented.

Lessons worth keeping

  1. 1
    The Latin incipit is Confitebimur tibi.
  2. 2
    The speaker’s recollections, requests and future declarations remain distinct.
  3. 3
    Edition explanations remain attributed; practical case details and universal guarantees are not invented.

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.

  1. Lines 62334–62339

    Corrupt not.... It is believed to have been the beginning of some ode or hymn, to the tune of which this psalm was to be sung. St. Augustine and other fathers take it to be an admonition of the spirit of God, not to faint or fail in our hope: but to persevere with constancy in good: because God will not fail in his due time to render to every man according to his works.
  2. Lines 62344–62344

    74:3. When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.
  3. Lines 62346–62349

    When I shall take a time.... In proper times: particularly at the last day, when the earth shall melt away at the presence of the great Judge: the same who originally laid the foundations of it, and as it were established its pillars.
  4. Lines 62362–62363

    74:8. For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:
  5. Lines 62365–62367

    74:9. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.
  6. Lines 62371–62372

    74:11. And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.

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