Psalms 118:128
Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated all wicked ways. PHE
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propterea ad omnia mandata tua dirigebar ; omnem viam iniquam odio habui.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διὰ τοῦτο πρὸς πάσας τὰς ἐντολάς σου κατωρθούμην, πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἄδικον ἐμίσησα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:128
- עַל כֵּ֤ן כָּל פִּקּ֣וּדֵי כֹ֣ל יִשָּׁ֑רְתִּי כָּל אֹ֖רַח שֶׁ֣קֶר שָׂנֵֽאתִי
Haydock's commentary
Directed. In my steps. (Berthier)
Pagnin, "I judged all, yea all thy precepts to be right." (Haydock)
The hatred of the wicked made the love of the beauty of the law increase in my breast. (Worthington)
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, Ain
127. “Therefore,” he saith, “was I made straight unto all Thy commandments” ( ver. 128 ). I was made straight, doubtless, because I loved them; and I clung by love to them, which were straight, that I might also myself become straight. Then what he addeth, naturally follows: “and every unrighteous way I utterly abhor.” For how could it be that he who loved the straight could do aught save abhor an unrighteous way? For as, if he loved gold and precious stones, he would abhor all that might bring loss of such property: thus, since he loved the command ments of God, he abhorred the path of iniquity, as one of the most savage rocks in the sailor’s track, whereon he must needs suffer shipwreck of things so precious. That this may not be his lot, he who saileth on the wood of the Cross with the divine commandments as his freight, steereth far from thence.