PSALTERIVM

PSALMVS XLIII — DEVS AVRIBVS

We Have Heard, O God

Deus auribus nostris is a national lament recalling God's mighty acts for the fathers while pleading for present deliverance. St. Paul quotes verse 22, 'For thy sake we are killed all the day long,' in Romans 8:36 regarding the sufferings of the elect who nonetheless conquer through Christ's love.

LATINE
Deus, auribus nostris audivimus: patres nostri annuntiaverunt nobis.
Opus, quod operatus es in diebus eorum: et in diebus antiquis.
Manus tua gentes disperdidit, et plantasti eos: afflixisti populos, et expulisti eos.
Nec enim in gladio suo possederunt terram, et brachium eorum non salvavit eos:
Sed dextera tua, et brachium tuum, et illuminatio vultus tui: quoniam complacuisti in eis.
Tu es ipse Rex meus et Deus meus: qui mandas salutes Iacob.
In te inimicos nostros ventilabimus cornu: et in nomine tuo spernemus insurgentes in nobis.
Non enim in arcu meo sperabo: et gladius meus non salvabit me.
Salvasti enim nos de affligentibus nos: et odientes nos confudisti.
ENGLISH
We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us,
The work, thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them.
But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.
Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.
But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.
NOTA
FONS
Douay-Rheims (1609) / Vulgata
USUS
National calamities, Times of persecution
CONTEXT
Psalm 44 in Hebrew numbering. V. 23 ('Arise, why sleepest thou?') parallels the disciples' cry to Christ in the storm.