Psalms 118:55
In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Memor fui nocte nominis tui, Domine, et custodivi legem tuam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐμνήσθην ἐν νυκτὶ τὸ ὄνομά σου, Κύριε, καὶ ἐφύλαξα τὸν νόμον σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:55
- זָ֘כַ֤רְתִּי בַלַּ֣יְלָה שִׁמְךָ֣ יְהוָ֑ה וָֽ֝אֶשְׁמְרָ֗ה תּוֹרָתֶֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
Night. Of tribulation, (Worthington) and captivity. (Calmet)
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
55. “I have thought upon Thy Name, O Lord, in the night-season, and have kept Thy law” ( ver. 55 ). Night is that low estate wherein is the trouble of mortality; night is in the proud who deal exceeding wickedly; night is the fear for the ungodly who forsake the law of the Lord; night is, lastly, the house of this pilgrimage, “until the Lord come, and bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then shall every man have praise of God.” In this night, therefore, man ought to remember the Name of the Lord; “So that he who glorieth, may glory in the Lord.”