Psalms 118:144
Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live. COPH
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Æquitas testimonia tua in æternum : intellectum da mihi, et vivam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δικαιοσύνη τὰ μαρτύριά σου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα· συνέτισόν με καὶ ζῆσόν με.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:144
- צֶ֖דֶק עֵדְוֺתֶ֥יךָ לְעוֹלָ֗ם הֲבִינֵ֥נִי וְאֶחְיֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Live. In justice, as thy law enjoins. (Worthington)
Christ is the life. (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, Tadze
142. “Thy testimonies are righteousness unto everlasting: O grant me understanding, and I shall live” ( ver. 144 ). This younger one prayeth for understanding; which if he had not, he would not be “wiser than the aged;” but he prayeth for it in trouble and hardships, that he may thereby understand how contemptible is all that his persecuting enemies can take from him, by whom he saith he hath been despised. Therefore he hath said, “and I shall live:” because if trouble and heaviness reached such a pitch, that his life should be terminated by the hands of his persecuting enemies, he will live for ever, who preferreth to temporal things, righteousness which remaineth for evermore. This righteousness in trouble and hardship are the Martyria Dei, that is, the testimonies of God, for which Martyrs have been crowned.