Psalms 118:23
For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Etenim sederunt principes, et adversum me loquebantur ; servus autem tuus exercebatur in justificationibus tuis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ γὰρ ἐκάθισαν ἄρχοντες, κατ᾽ ἐμοῦ κατελάλουν· ὁ δὲ δοῦλός σου ἠδολέσχει ἐν τοῖς δικαιώμασίν σου·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:23
- גַּ֤ם יָֽשְׁב֣וּ שָׂ֭רִים בִּ֣י נִדְבָּ֑רוּ עַ֝בְדְּךָ֗ יָשִׂ֥יחַ בְּחֻקֶּֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Princes. Thus Daniel, (vi. 5.) was treated. (Calmet)
All who would live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution, 2 Timothy iii. 12. (Haydock)
The servant of God will adhere to his duty, though his adversaries may be very powerful. (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, Gimel
24. “Princes also did sit and speak against me: but Thy servant is exercised in Thy statutes” ( ver. 23 ). Thou who desirest to know what sort of exercise this was, understand what he hath added, “For Thy testimonies are my meditation, and Thy statutes are my counsellors” ( ver. 24 ). Remember what I have above instructed you, that testimonies are acts of martyrdom. Remember that among the statutes of the Lord there is none more difficult and more worthy of admiration, than that every man should love his enemies. Thus then the body of Christ was exercised, so that it meditated on the acts of martyrdom that testified of Him, and loved those from whom, while they rebuked and despised the Church for these very martyrdoms, she suffered persecutions.…