Psalms 118:48
And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications. ZAIN
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et levavi manus meas ad mandata tua, quæ dilexi, et exercebar in justificationibus tuis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἦρα τὰς χεῖράς μου πρὸς τὰς ἐντολάς σου αἷς ἠγάπησας σφόδρα, καὶ ἠδολέσχουν ἐν τοῖς δικαιώμασίν σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:48
- וְאֶשָּֽׂא כַפַּ֗י אֶֽל מִ֭צְוֺתֶיךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָהָ֗בְתִּי וְאָשִׂ֥יחָה בְחֻקֶּֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Hands. To pray, labour, or rather to swear an eternal fidelity. (Calmet)
Confessors rejoice in meditating on God's words, which they shew forth in all their actions. (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, Vav
49. “And I meditated,” he saith, “on Thy commandments, which I have loved” ( ver. 47 ). “My hands also have I lifted up unto Thy commandments, which I have loved” ( ver. 48 ); or, as some copies read, “which I have loved exceedingly,” or “too much,” or “vehemently,” as they have chosen to render the Greek word σφόδρα . He then loved the commandments of God because he walked at liberty; that is, through the Holy Spirit, through whom love itself is shed abroad, and enlargeth the hearts of the faithful. But he loved, both in thought and in acts. With a view to thought, he saith, “And I meditated:” as to action, “My hands also have I lifted up.” But to both sentences, he hath annexed the words, “which I have loved:” for “the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart.”…The following words, “And my study was in Thy statutes,” relate to both. …