Psalms 108:19
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fiat ei sicut vestimentum quo operitur, et sicut zona qua semper præcingitur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- γενηθήτω αὐτῷ ὡς ἱμάτιον ὃ περιβάλλεται, καὶ ὡσεὶ ζώνη ἣν διὰ παντὸς ζώννυται.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 109:19
- תְּהִי ל֭וֹ כְּבֶ֣גֶד יַעְטֶ֑ה וּ֝לְמֵ֗זַח תָּמִ֥יד יַחְגְּרֶֽהָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CIX
19. “This is the work of them that slander me before the Lord” ( ver. 19 ). He said not, “their reward,” but, “their work:” for it is clear that by the clothing, covering, water, oil, and girdle, he was describing the very works by which eternal curses are procured. It is not then one Judas, but many, of whom it is said, “This is the work of them that slander me before the Lord.” Although indeed the plural number might have been put for the singular; even as, when Herod died, it was said by the Angel, “They are dead which sought the young Child’s life.” But who slander Christ more before the Lord, than they who slander the very words of the Lord, by declaring that it is not He whom the Law of the Lord and His Prophets announced beforehand? “And of those that speak evil against my soul:” by denying that He, when He had willed, could have arisen: though He saith, “I have power to lay down …
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 6:14-17
This language he employs, not without a purpose, but in consequence of what he had been saying previously; “having girded your loins, having on the breastplate,” &c., which are a token of a constant and unceasing advance; for hear what the Prophet saith, “Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually” ( Ps. cix. 19 .); and the Prophet Isaiah again saith, that God hath “put on righteousness as a breastplate” ( Isa. lix. 17 .); by these expressions instructing us that these are things which we must have, not for a short time only, but continually, inasmuch as there is continual need of warfare. “For it is said the righteous are bold as a lion.” ( Prov. xxviii. …