Psalms 118:110
Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy precepts.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Posuerunt peccatores laqueum mihi, et de mandatis tuis non erravi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔθεντο ἁμαρτωλοὶ παγίδα μοι, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐντολῶν σου οὐκ ἐπλανήθην.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:110
- נָתְנ֬וּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים פַּ֣ח לִ֑י וּ֝מִפִּקּוּדֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א תָעִֽיתִי
Haydock's commentary
Snare, ver. 67. In such dangers, I still remain faithful. (Calmet)
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, Nun
109. “The ungodly,” he saith, “have laid a snare for me: but yet I swerved not from Thy commandments” ( ver. 110 ). Whence this, unless because his soul is in the hands of God, or in his own hands is offered to God to be quickened?