The interpretation timeline

Ps 39:18

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ps 39:18 · Douay-Rheims
“But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“poor Every expression of poor and needy in Psalms refers only to Israel. may...think of me Heb יחשב. May He pay heed to me to think of my poverty and neediness, to save me. Pensa in French, to think.”
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.