Psalms 118:40
Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice. VAU
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ecce concupivi mandata tua : in æquitate tua vivifica me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἰδοὺ ἐπεθύμησα τὰς ἐντολάς σου· ἐν τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ σου ζῆσόν με.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:40
- הִ֭נֵּה תָּאַ֣בְתִּי לְפִקֻּדֶ֑יךָ בְּצִדְקָתְךָ֥ חַיֵּֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
Quicken. The just prays for greater perfection, and for perseverance. (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, He
41. “Behold, I have coveted Thy commandments: O quicken Thou me in Thy righteousness” ( ver. 40 ). Behold, I have coveted to love Thee with all my heart, and with all my soul, and with all my mind, and my neighbour as myself, but, “O quicken Thou me” not in my own, but “in Thy righteousness,” that is, fill me with that love which I have longed for. Aid me that I may do that which Thou chargest me: Thyself give what Thou dost command. “O quicken Thou me in Thy righteousness:” for in myself I had that which would cause my death: but I find not save in Thee whence I may live. Christ is Thy righteousness, “Who of God is made unto us wisdom,” etc. And in Him I find Thy commandments, which I have coveted, that in Thy righteousness, that is, in Him, Thou mayest quicken me. For the Word Himself is God; and “the Word was made flesh,” that He Himself also might be my neighbour.