Psalms 118:54
Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cantabiles mihi erant justificationes tuæ in loco peregrinationis meæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ψαλτὰ ἦσάν μοι τὰ δικαιώματά σου ἐν τόπῳ παροικίας μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:54
- זְ֭מִרוֹת הָֽיוּ לִ֥י חֻקֶּ֗יךָ בְּבֵ֣ית מְגוּרָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Song. Here on earth I am comforted with singing the praises of thy law, which makes the observers just. (Worthington)
The captives would not give holy things to dogs: but, among themselves, they sung canticles, Psalm cxxxvi. (Calmet) (Colossians iii. 16., 1 Paralipomenon xxix. 15., and Hebrews xi. 16.)
These pious exercises were opposed to the scandalous discourses of sinners. (Berthier)
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
54. “Weariness hath held me; for the ungodly that forsake Thy law” ( ver. 53 ). “Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage” ( ver. 54 ). This is the low estate, in the house of mortality, of the man who sojourneth away from Paradise and the Jerusalem above, whence one going down to Jericho fell among robbers; but, in consequence of the deed of mercy which was done him by that Samaritan, the statutes of God became his song in the house of his pilgrimage; although he was weary for the ungodly that forsook the law of God, since he was compelled to converse with them for a season in this life, until the floor be threshed. But these two verses may be adapted to the two clauses of the preceding verse, respectively.