Psalms 118:27
Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Viam justificationum tuarum instrue me, et exercebor in mirabilibus tuis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὁδὸν δικαιωμάτων σου συνέτισόν με, καὶ ἀδολεσχήσω ἐν τοῖς θαυμασίοις σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:27
- דֶּֽרֶךְ פִּקּוּדֶ֥יךָ הֲבִינֵ֑נִי וְ֝אָשִׂ֗יחָה בְּנִפְלְאוֹתֶֽיךָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Daleth
28. Finally he addeth, “Intimate to me the way of Thy righteousness” ( ver. 27 ); or, as some copies have it, “instruct me;” which is expressed more closely from the Greek, “Make me to understand the way of Thy righteousnesses; so shall I be exercised in Thy wondrous things.” These higher commandments, which he desireth to understand by edification, he calleth the wondrous things of God. There are then some righteousnesses of God so wondrous, that human weakness may be believed incapable of fulfilling them by those who have not tried. Whence the Psalmist, struggling and wearied with the difficulty of obeying them, saith, “My soul hath slumbered for very heaviness: O stablish Thou me with Thy word!” ( ver. 28 ). What meaneth, hath slumbered? save that he hath cooled in the hope which he had entertained of being able to reach them. …