Title and subject matter
Titulum et argumentum
A canticle of the steps
Canticum graduum
This Psalm contains a prayer of man on his journey to the heavenly Jerusalem, suffering hardship in his exile or on the journey.
Verse 1
To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.
Ad te levavi oculos meos, qui habitas in caelis.
The Prophet speaks sometimes in the person of a pilgrim and sometimes in his own person, as one of the actual pilgrims; and he says that, whatever the adversities (he suffered), he looked for no other helper than God; since, firstly, He alone dwells in the highest heaven and from there he looks down upon and rules all the creatures below; and, secondly, because He is the one who punishes us through wicked men, and so it is in vain that we seek refuge with any others, since no man can take us out of God’s hands.
Totus tuus ego sum
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam.
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