Psalms 118:69
The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Multiplicata est super me iniquitas superborum ; ego autem in toto corde meo scrutabor mandata tua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπληθύνθη ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ ἀδικία ὑπερηφάνων, ἐγὼ δὲ ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ μου ἐξεραυνήσω τὰς ἐντολάς σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:69
- טָפְל֬וּ עָלַ֣י שֶׁ֣קֶר זֵדִ֑ים אֲ֝נִ֗י בְּכָל לֵ֤ב אֱצֹּ֬ר פִּקּוּדֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Iniquity. Hebrew, "the proud have forged lies against me," (Haydock) which was verified in Daniel, (Calmet) David, &c. (Haydock)
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, Teth
68. Next he saith, “The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied upon me” ( ver. 69 ): of those, that is, whom it profited not that human nature was humbled after it went wrong. “But I will search Thy commandments with my whole heart.” Howsoever, he saith, iniquity shall abound, love shall not grow cold in me. He, as it were, saith this, who in His sweetness learneth the righteousnesses of God. For in proportion as the commandments of Him who aideth us are the more sweet, so much the more doth he who loveth Him search after them, that he may perform them when known, and may learn them by doing them; because they are more perfectly understood when they are performed.