Psalms 118:173
Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fiat manus tua ut salvet me, quoniam mandata tua elegi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- γενέσθω ἡ χείρ σου τοῦ σῶσαι, ὅτι τὰς ἐντολάς σου ᾑρετισάμην.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:173
- תְּהִֽי יָדְךָ֥ לְעָזְרֵ֑נִי כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ בָחָֽרְתִּי
Haydock's commentary
Save me. Though a person be endued with grace, he requireth more grace to resist temptations. (Worthington)
Actual grace is requisite. (Haydock)
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, Tau
170. “Let Thy hand be stretched forth ( fiat , be made) to save me, for I have chosen Thy commandments” ( ver. 173 ). That I might not fear, and that not only might my heart hold fast, but my tongue also utter Thy words: “I have chosen Thy commandments,” and have stifled fear with love. Let Thy hand therefore be stretched forth, to save me from another’s hand. Thus God saved the Martyrs, when He permitted them not to be slain in their souls: for “vain is the safety of man” in the flesh. The words, “Let Thy hand be made,” may also be taken to mean Christ the Hand of God…Certainly where we read the following words, “I have longed for Thy salvation, O Lord” ( ver. …