Psalms 118:19
I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Incola ego sum in terra : non abscondas a me mandata tua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πάροικός εἰμι ἐν τῇ γῇ, μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ τὰς ἐντολάς σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:19
- גֵּ֣ר אָנֹכִ֣י בָאָ֑רֶץ אַל תַּסְתֵּ֥ר מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי מִצְוֺתֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Earth. At Babylon, or in the world, which is a pilgrimage, (Calmet) and I am unacquainted with the roads. (Menochius)
The latter sense is much better, 2 Corinthians v. 6., and Hebrews xi. 10. (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, Gimel
17. “Open Thou mine eyes, and I will consider wondrous things of Thy law” ( ver. 18 ). What he addeth, “I am a lodger upon earth” ( ver. 19 ): or, as some copies read, “I am a sojourner upon earth, O hide not Thy commandments from me,” hath the same meaning.…
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter VII. How we can attain perfection in each of these sorts of renunciations
Wherefore it will not be of much advantage to us that we have made our first renunciation with the utmost devotion and faith, if we do not complete the second with the same zeal and ardour. And so when we have succeeded in this, we shall be able to arrive at the third as well, in which we go forth from the house of our former parent, (who, as we know well, was our father from our very birth, after the old man, when we were “by nature children of wrath, as others also,”) and fix our whole mental gaze on things celestial. …