Psalms 118:52
I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Memor fui judiciorum tuorum a sæculo, Domine, et consolatus sum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐμνήσθην τῶν κριμάτων σου, Κύριε, ἀπ᾽ αἰῶνος καὶ παρεκλήθην.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:52
- זָ֘כַ֤רְתִּי מִשְׁפָּטֶ֖יךָ מֵעוֹלָ֥ם יְהוָ֗ה וָֽאֶתְנֶחָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Of old. Upon the rebel angels, and sinful men, whom thou wilt punish for ever. This encourages me to adhere to the cause of virtue. (Worthington)
In many dangers our ancestors have been protected by God. Is his arm shortened, or are we no longer his people? (Calmet) (1 Peter iv. 12.)
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
53. “For I was mindful of Thy judgments from the beginning of the world, O Lord, and received comfort” ( ver. 52 ); or, as other copies have it, “and I was exhorted,” that is, received exhortation. For either might be rendered for the Greek pareklhqhn. “From the beginning of the world,” that is, from the birth of the human race, “I was mindful of Thy judgments” upon the vessels of wrath, which are fitted unto perdition: “and I received comfort,” since through these also hast Thou shown the riches of Thy glory on the vessels of Thy mercy.