Psalms 118:79
Let them that fear thee turn to me and they that know thy testimonies.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Convertantur mihi timentes te, et qui noverunt testimonia tua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπιστρεψάτωσαν οἱ φοβούμενοί σε καὶ οἱ γινώσκοντες τὰ μαρτύριά σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:79
- יָשׁ֣וּבוּ לִ֣י יְרֵאֶ֑יךָ וידעו עֵדֹתֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Turn to me. Let the wicked (Worthington) among those who adore the true God, enter into themselves, that we may form a holy league to support each other. (Haydock)
May we all obtain our liberty, (Calmet) or may they imitate my constancy. (St. Ambrose)
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
79. “Let such as fear Thee,” he saith, “and have known Thy testimonies, be turned unto me” ( ver. 79 ). But who is he who saith this? For no mortal will venture to say this, or if he say it, should be listened to. Indeed, it is He who above also hath interposed His own words, saying, “I am a partaker with all them that fear Thee.” Because He was made sharer in our mortal state, that we might also become partakers in His Divine Nature, we became sharers in One unto life, He a sharer in many unto death. He it is unto whom they that fear God turn, and who know the testimonies of God, so long before predicted of Him through the Prophets, a little before displayed in His presence through miracles.