Psalms 107:2
My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Paratum cor meum, Deus, paratum cor meum ; cantabo, et psallam in gloria mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἑτοίμη ἡ καρδία μου, ὁ θεός, ἑτοίμη ἡ καρδία μου, ᾄσομαι καὶ ψαλῶ ἐν τῇ δόξῃ μου·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 108:2
- נָכ֣וֹן לִבִּ֣י אֱלֹהִ֑ים אָשִׁ֥ירָה וַ֝אֲזַמְּרָ֗ה אַף כְּבוֹדִֽי
Haydock's commentary
My heart, &c. Is not repeated in Hebrew. But it is, [in] Psalm lvi. 8.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVIII
1. I have not thought that the CVIII th Psalm required an exposition; since I have already expounded it in the LVII th Psalm, and in the LX th , of the last divisions of which this Psalm consisteth. For the last part of the LVII th is the first of this, as far as the verse, “Thy glory is above all the earth.” Henceforth to the end, is the last part of the LX th : as the last part of the CXXXV th is the same as that of the CXV th , from the verse, “The images of the heathen are but gold and silver:” as the XIV th -->[4899] --> and LIII d , with a few alterations in the middle, have everything the same from the beginning to the end. …
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 6:14
Moral . Let not any one of them that eat this Passover look towards Egypt, but towards Heaven, towards “Jerusalem that is above.” ( Gal. iv. 26 .) On this account thou eatest with thy loins girded, on this account thou eatest with shoes on thy feet, that thou mayest know, that from the moment thou first beginnest to eat the Passover, thou oughtest to set out, and to be upon thy journey. And this implies two things, both that we must depart out of Egypt, and that, whilst we stay, we must stay henceforth as in a strange country; “for our citizenship,” saith he, “is in Heaven” ( Philip. iii. 20 .); and that all our life long we should ever be prepared, so that when we are called we may not put it off, but say, “My heart is fixed.” ( Ps. cviii. …