Psalms 118:70
Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Coagulatum est sicut lac cor eorum ; ego vero legem tuam meditatus sum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐτυρώθη ὡς γάλα ἡ καρδία αὐτῶν, ἐγὼ δὲ τὸν νόμον σου ἐμελέτησα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:70
- טָפַ֣שׁ כַּחֵ֣לֶב לִבָּ֑ם אֲ֝נִ֗י תּוֹרָתְךָ֥ שִֽׁעֲשָֽׁעְתִּי
Haydock's commentary
Curdled. Grown hard, like milk that is curdled and turned to cheese. (Challoner)
Hebrew, "like fat." They have no compassion or wisdom, Isaias vi. 10. (Calmet)
Without the points, cheleb means also milk. (Berthier)
The wicked combine together for my ruin: but I will still be faithful. (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, Teth
69. “Their heart is curdled as milk” ( ver. 70 ). Whose, save the proud, whose iniquity he hath said hath been multiplied upon him? But he wisheth it to be understood by this word, and in this passage, that their heart hath become hard. It is used also in a good sense, and is understood to mean, full of grace: for this word, some have also interpreted “curdled.”…