Psalms 118:34
Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Da mihi intellectum, et scrutabor legem tuam, et custodiam illam in toto corde meo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- συνέτισόν με, καὶ ἐκζητήσω τὸν νόμον σου, καὶ φυλάξω αὐτὸν ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:34
- הֲ֭בִינֵנִי וְאֶצְּרָ֥ה תֽוֹרָתֶ֗ךָ וְאֶשְׁמְרֶ֥נָּה בְכָל לֵֽב
Haydock's commentary
Heart. Enable me to keep and to understand thy law, ver. 1, 2. (Worthington)
We must observe what we know, that we may receive greater lights. (Haydock)
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, He
34. “Give me understanding, and I shall search Thy law, yea, I shall keep it with my whole heart” ( ver. 34 ). For when each man hath searched the law, and searched its deep things, in which its whole meaning doth consist; he ought indeed to love God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind; and his neighbour as himself. “For on these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” This he seemeth to have promised, when he said, “Yea, I shall keep it with my whole heart.”