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Psalm 116:9-11
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 116:9-11
New Catholic Bible
9 I will walk in the presence of the Lord
in the land of the living.[a]
10 I believed; therefore, I said,[b]
“I am greatly afflicted.”
11 In my dismay I cried out,
“All men are liars.”[c]
Footnotes
- Psalm 116:9 The land of the living: reference to this life or to the temple (see Pss 52:7; 116:9; Isa 38:11), where the God of life is present; the psalmist is speaking of the world of the living as opposed to the world of the dead.
- Psalm 116:10 I believed; therefore, I said: the psalmist kept faith even in the darkest times (see 2 Cor 4:13 where this text is cited).
- Psalm 116:11 All men are liars: the psalmist avers that his enemies are telling falsehoods about him (see Pss 5:10f; 35:11, 15; 109:2-4), because all people are liars. He could also be alluding to the fact that all people offer only a false hope of deliverance. These words are cited in Rom 3:4.
