Psalms 118:10
With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In toto corde meo exquisivi te ; ne repellas me a mandatis tuis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ ἐξεζήτησά σε, μὴ ἀπώσῃ με ἀπὸ τῶν ἐντολῶν σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:10
- בְּכָל לִבִּ֥י דְרַשְׁתִּ֑יךָ אַל תַּ֝שְׁגֵּ֗נִי מִמִּצְוֺתֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Let. Literally, "do not cast me off." (Haydock)
God rejects none but the negligent. (St. Hilary; St. Ambrose, &c.)
The just, or the Church in general, here confess (Worthington) that perseverance is a gift of God. (Haydock)
Deprived of grace, we should fall, no less than if God "made us err," as the Hebrew strictly implies. (Berthier)
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, Beth
10. “With my whole heart,” he saith, “have I sought thee; O repel me not from Thy commandments” ( ver. 10 ). Behold, he prayeth that he may be aided to keep the words of God, wherewith he had said that the young man corrected his way. For this is the meaning of the words, “O repel me not from Thy commandments:” for what is it to be repelled of God, save not to be aided? For human infirmity is not equal to obeying His righteous and exalted commandments, unless His love doth prevent and aid. But those whom He aideth not, these He is justly said to repel.…