Psalms 118:92
Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nisi quod lex tua meditatio mea est, tunc forte periissem in humilitate mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰ μὴ ὅτι ὁ νόμος σου μελέτη μού ἐστιν, τότε ἂν ἀπωλόμην ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει μου·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:92
- לוּלֵ֣י ת֭וֹרָתְךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָ֑י אָ֝֗ז אָבַ֥דְתִּי בְעָנְיִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Abjection. Man cannot rise from sin without grace, and attention to the law. (Worthington)
This supports him under the punishment of sin. (Haydock)
Meditation alleviates his grief, which might otherwise have proved mortal. (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, Lamed
92. He then looketh back towards the source of this earth’s deliverance, which caused it to abide when founded; and addeth, “If my delight had not been in Thy law, I should perchance have perished in my humiliation” ( ver. 92 ). This is the law of faith, not a vain faith, but that which worketh through love. Through this grace is gained, which maketh men courageous in temporal tribulation, that they may not perish in the humiliation of mortality.