Psalms 118:129
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Phe Mirabilia testimonia tua : ideo scrutata est ea anima mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Θαυμαστὰ τὰ μαρτύριά σου, διὰ τοῦτο ἐξηρεύνησεν αὐτὰ ἡ ψυχή μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:129
- פְּלָא֥וֹת עֵדְוֺתֶ֑יךָ עַל כֵּ֝֗ן נְצָרָ֥תַם נַפְשִֽׁי
Haydock's commentary
Wonderful. Under the letter, I discovered many mysteries, which makes me study them diligently. (Calmet)
God's works and laws deserve our most serious attention. (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, Pe
128. “Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore hath my soul searched them” ( ver. 129 ). Who counteth, even by their kinds, the testimonies of God? Heaven and earth, His visible and invisible works, declare in some manner the testimony of His goodness and greatness; and the very ordinary and accustomed course of nature, whereby the seasons are rapidly revolved, in all things after their kinds, however temporal and perishable, however held cheap through our constant experience of them, give, if a pious thinker give heed to them, a testimony to the Creator. …