Psalms 140:8
But o to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quia ad te, Domine, Domine, oculi mei ; in te speravi, non auferas animam meam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι πρὸς σέ, Κύριε κύριε, οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, ἐπὶ σὲ ἤλπισα, μὴ ἀντανέλῃς τὴν ψυχήν μου·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 141:8
- כִּ֤י אֵלֶ֨יךָ יְהֹוִ֣ה אֲדֹנָ֣י עֵינָ֑י בְּכָ֥ה חָ֝סִ֗יתִי אַל תְּעַ֥ר נַפְשִֽׁי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXLI
11. “For unto Thee, Lord, are mine eyes; in Thee have I hoped, take not Thou away my life” ( ver. 8 ). For they were tortured in persecutions, and many failed. It occurreth to him that many have failed, many have been in hazard, and as it were in the midst of the tribulation of persecution is sent forth the voice of one praying; “For unto Thee, Lord, are mine eyes:” I care not what they threaten who stand around, “unto Thee, Lord, are mine eyes.” More do I fix mine eye on Thy promises than on their threats. I know what Thou hast suffered for me, what Thou hast promised me.
St Gregory the Great Book X, To Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria
In the past year I received the letters of your most sweet Holiness; but on account of the extreme severity of my sickness have been unable to reply to them until now. For lo, it is now almost full two years that I have been confined to my bed, afflicted with such pains of gout that I have hardly been able to rise on feast-days for as much as three hours space to solemnize mass. And I am soon compelled by severe pain to lie down, that I may be able to bear my torment with intervening groans. This pain of mine is sometimes moderate, and sometimes excessive: but neither so moderate as to depart, nor so excessive as to kill me. Hence it comes to pass that, being daily in death, I am daily debarred from death. Nor it is surprising that, grievous sinner as I am, I am long kept confined in the prison of such corruption. …