Psalms 118:51
The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Superbi inique agebant usquequaque ; a lege autem tua non declinavi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Swete prints Codex Vaticanus, which skips this line. The copyist's eye jumped from 'thy word' in verse 50 to the end of verse 51, so only the closing words 'I declined not' (οὐκ ἐξέκλινα) survive, joined onto verse 50. 'The proud did iniquitously altogether... from thy law' is missing from this Greek text.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:51
- זֵ֭דִים הֱלִיצֻ֣נִי עַד מְאֹ֑ד מִ֝תּֽוֹרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א נָטִֽיתִי
Haydock's commentary
Did. Hebrew, "greatly derided me." (Haydock)
But I continued to observe thy law (Calmet) with patience, notwithstanding their provocations. (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, Zain
52. The next verse is, “The proud dealt exceeding wickedly: yet have I not shrinked from Thy law” ( ver. 51 ). By the proud he wished to be understood the persecutors of the pious; and he therefore added, “yet have I not shrinked from Thy laws,” because the persecution of the proud attempted to force him to do this. He saith that they dealt “exceeding wickedly,” because they were not only wicked themselves, but even tried to make the godly wicked. In this humiliation, that is, in this tribulation, that hope comforted him which was given in the word of God, who promised aid, that the faith of the Martyrs might not faint; and who by the presence of His Spirit gave strength to them in their toils, that they might escape from the snare of the fowlers.…