Psalms 118:16
I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. GIMEL
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In justificationibus tuis meditabor : non obliviscar sermones tuos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν τοῖς δικαιώμασίν σου μελετήσω, οὐκ ἐπιλήσομαι τῶν λόγων σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:16
- בְּחֻקֹּתֶ֥יךָ אֶֽשְׁתַּעֲשָׁ֑ע לֹ֭א אֶשְׁכַּ֣ח דְּבָרֶֽךָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Beth
14. “I will talk of Thy commandments, and have respect unto Thy ways” ( ver. 15 ). And thus the Church doth exercise herself in the commandments of God, by speaking in the copious disputations of the learned against all the enemies of the Christian and Catholic faith; which are fruitful to those who compose them, if nothing but the ways of the Lord is regarded in them; but “All the ways of the Lord are,” as it is written, “mercy and truth;” the fulness of which both is found in Christ. Through this sweet exercise is gained also what he subjoineth: “My meditation shall be in Thy statutes, and I will not forget Thy word” ( ver. 16 ). “My meditation” shall be therein, that I may not forget them. Thus the blessed man in the first Psalm “shall meditate in the law” of the Lord “day and night.”…