All Psalms in some way are related to Christ in that they can reflect His glory, His sufferings, His Kingdom, all that comprised His life on earth and His glory in Heaven. And because they are related to the Christ, they are also related to the lives of all men (all who lived before Him and all who came after) to whom He joined Himself in His Incarnation.newadvent.org/bible/psa068.htm
I find this psalm confusing. Is this psalm about Christ or converts? How does verse 6 fit Christ and 9 Mary?
The commentary just below vs. 6 of Psalm 68 at the site you’ve included gives the clue to the Christological interpretation for this verse.The psalms are not merely ancient poems which the Church fancifully adapts to her own liturgical uses. Everything in them is charged with vital urgency by virtue of the fact that they are full of Christ. Either they speak to us directly of the Redeemer Himself in His sufferings, His kingship, His priesthood: or else they narrate the trials and progress of the Mystical Christ, the Church, His people. When Israel went out of Egypt and wandered in the desert, God became a pilgrim with them in the dark years of their tribulation. He came down to them on the mountain in cloud and fire, speaking to them through Moses who was a type of Christ. He fed them in the desert with manna, foreshadowing the Holy Eucharist. Water sprang from a rock in the desert at the command of Moses, and never ceased to supply them until they settled in the Land of Promises. ‘The Rock,’ says St. Paul, ‘was Christ’ . . . .It is in chanting the Psalms that we too are leaving Egypt. The Liturgy is the Church’s greatest weapon against her enemies because it is filled with the might of the Mystery which is its center. The Mystery of Christ is the heart of all history and extends backwards and forwards and embraces all time. It was in Christ that Israel crossed the desert and it is in Christ that we, the tribes of Israel, are going up to Jerusalem. The Mystery of Christ is timeless. . .
Regarding, vs. 9 and whether it is speaking of the Blessed Virgin Mary. . .68:6. O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:
*Deus tu scis stultitiam meam et peccata mea a te non sunt abscondita *
My foolishness and my offences… which my enemies impute to me: or the follies and sins of men, which I have taken upon myself.
The Christological interpretation here is that His “brethren” are the Jews who rejected Him as an “alien”, though He was born in their midst from His Jewish mother Who is mother to all who acknowledge Him.68:9. I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.
Can you explain me the chapter more? How can we sure that the mother is Israel?All Psalms in some way are related to Christ in that they can reflect His glory, His sufferings, His Kingdom, all that comprised His life on earth and His glory in Heaven. And because they are related to the Christ, they are also related to the lives of all men (all who lived before Him and all who came after) to whom He joined Himself in His Incarnation.
From Bread in the Wilderness, by Thomas Merton:
The commentary just below vs. 6 of Psalm 68 at the site you’ve included gives the clue to the Christological interpretation for this verse.
Regarding, vs. 9 and whether it is speaking of the Blessed Virgin Mary. . .
The Christological interpretation here is that His “brethren” are the Jews who rejected Him as an “alien”, though He was born in their midst from His Jewish mother Who is mother to all who acknowledge Him.
I should have said, more specifically, “Jerusalem”, since she is the mother-city beyond all others (cf. 2 Sam. 20:10). Confer also Ps. 87:5; Is. 2:1-5, 54:1, and 60:1-8. See in Luke 19:41-44 the result of her unfaithfulness, which is why the New Jerusalem of the Church (Rev. 21;2) supplants the former.Can you explain me the chapter more? How can we sure that the mother is Israel?