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Psalm 56:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 56:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 My foes pursue me all day long,
with their forces too many to number.
4 When I am terrified,
I place my trust in you.
5 In God, whose word[a] I praise,
in God I place my trust and know no fear;
what can people do to me?
Footnotes
- Psalm 56:5 Word: as in verse 11, God’s “word” is the promise by which he committed himself to his faithful; this is a very familiar theme in the Psalter (see Pss 105:8-11; 119:42, 65; 130:5). People: (also in v. 12); literally, “flesh,” representative of human frailty with respect to the divine power. People can indeed inflict pain, suffering, and death upon us, but they cannot rob us of our souls or our eternal future (see Ps 118:6; Heb 13:6). Jesus said: “Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul” (Mt 10:28); thus, we are to fear no one but God alone, who is also our helper.
