Psalms 118:26
I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vias meas enuntiavi, et exaudisti me ; doce me justificationes tuas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὰς ὁδούς σου ἐξήγγειλα, καὶ ἐπήκουσάς μου· δίδαξόν με τὰ δικαιώματά σου,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:26
- דְּרָכַ֣י סִ֭פַּרְתִּי וַֽתַּעֲנֵ֗נִי לַמְּדֵ֥נִי חֻקֶּֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Ways. Or sins, (Theodoret) or miserable condition, ver. 25. (Calmet)
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
27. For what he was by himself, he confesseth in the following words: “I have acknowledged my ways, and Thou heardest me” ( ver. 26 ). Some copies indeed read, “Thy ways:” but more, and the best Greek, read “my ways,” that is, evil ways. For he seemeth to me to say this; I have confessed my sins, and Thou hast heard me; that is, so that Thou wouldest remit them. “O teach me Thy statutes.” I have acknowledged my ways: Thou hast blotted them out: teach me Thine. So teach me, that I may act; not merely that I may know how I ought to act. For as it is said of the Lord, that He knew not sin, and it is understood, that He did no sin; so also he ought truly to be said to know righteousness, who doeth it. This is the prayer of one who is improving.…