Psalms 118:78
Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Confundantur superbi, quia injuste iniquitatem fecerunt in me ; ego autem exercebor in mandatis tuis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- αἰσχυνθήτωσαν ὑπερήφανοι, ὅτι ἀδίκως ἠνόμησαν εἰς ἐμέ· ἐγὼ δὲ ἀδολεσχήσω ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:78
- יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ זֵ֭דִים כִּי שֶׁ֣קֶר עִוְּת֑וּנִי אֲ֝נִ֗י אָשִׂ֥יחַ בְּפִקּוּדֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Ashamed. Literally, "confounded," not accomplishing their wicked designs. (Calmet)
Thus may they be induced to entertain that shame for sin which bringeth life, (Haydock) and cease to offend. (Theodoret)
Let them be converted: though it be also (Haydock) lawful to desire that obstinate sinners may undergo just punishment. (Worthington)
The saints pray thus out of zeal for their good. It may also be a prediction, as the Hebrew word (Berthier) yebshu is in the future. (Haydock)
Done. Hebrew, "falsely perverted," (Montanus) in desire; (Calmet) or "having wished to pervert me without cause." (Pagnin)
But to pervert, means also to treat ill; and hivvethuni has that sense here, (Haydock) according to the best authors. (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, Jod
78. He then goeth on as follows: “Let the proud be confounded, for they have unrighteously practised iniquity against me: but I will be occupied in Thy commandments” ( ver. 78 ). Behold, what he saith, the meditation of the law of God, or rather, his meditation the law of God.