Psalms 118:102
I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- A judiciis tuis non declinavi, quia tu legem posuisti mihi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπὸ τῶν κλιμάτων σου οὐκ ἐξέκλινα, ὅτι σὺ ἐνομοθέτησάς μοι.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:102
- מִמִּשְׁפָּטֶ֥יךָ לֹא סָ֑רְתִּי כִּֽי אַ֝תָּ֗ה הוֹרֵתָֽנִי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Mem
102. “I have not shrunk,” he saith, “from Thy judgments: for Thou hast laid down a law for me” ( ver. 102 ). He hath stated what made him fear, so that he refrained his feet from every evil way.…Thou, more inward than my inmost self, Thou hast laid down a law within my heart by Thy Spirit, as it were by Thy fingers, that I might not fear it as a slave without love, but might love it with a chaste fear as a son, and fear it with a chaste love.