Psalms 118:25
My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Daleth Adhæsit pavimento anima mea : vivifica me secundum verbum tuum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐκολλήθη τῷ ἐδάφει ἡ ψυχή μου· ζήσομαι κατὰ τὸ λόγιόν σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:25
- דָּֽבְקָ֣ה לֶעָפָ֣ר נַפְשִׁ֑י חַ֝יֵּ֗נִי כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
Pavement. Hebrew, "dust," (Berthier) weighed down by concupiscence, (St. Augustine) and infected by the union with the body. (St. Ambrose)
The just, in great distress, beg to be delivered, conformably to God's promise. (Worthington) (Wisdom ix. 15., and Romans vii. 24.)
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, Daleth
25. “My soul cleaveth to the pavement: O quicken Thou me according to Thy word” ( ver. 25 ). What meaneth, “My soul cleaveth to the pavement, O quicken Thou me according to Thy word”?…If we look upon the whole world as one great house, we see that the heavens represent its vaulting, the earth therefore will be its pavement. He wisheth therefore to be rescued from earthly things, and to say with the Apostle, “Our conversation is in heaven.” To cling therefore to earthly things is the soul’s death; the contrary of which evil, life is prayed for, when he saith, “O quicken Thou me.”
Theodoret The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret, Of the massacre of Thessalonica; the boldness of Bishop Ambrosius, and the piety of the Emperor
Now the very faithful emperor came boldly within the holy temple but did not pray to his Lord standing, or even on his knees, but lying prone upon the ground he uttered David’s cry “My soul cleaveth unto the dust, quicken thou me according to thy word.”