Psalms 17:33
God who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Deus qui præcinxit me virtute, et posuit immaculatam viam meam ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ θεὸς ὁ περιζωννύων με δύναμιν, καὶ ἔθετο ἄμωμον τὴν ὁδόν μου·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 18:33
- הָ֭אֵל הַמְאַזְּרֵ֣נִי חָ֑יִל וַיִּתֵּ֖ן תָּמִ֣ים דַּרְכִּֽי
Haydock's commentary
Blameless. Whatever good is in me, comes from his grace, ver. 21, 24. (Haydock)
God has prevented me from killing Saul and Nabal; He has rescued me from the abyss into which I had fallen. (Calmet)
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, Psalm XVIII
33. “God, who hath girded me with strength” ( ver. 32 ). God, who hath girded me that I might be strong, lest the loosely flowing folds of desire hinder my deeds and steps. “And hath made my way undefiled.” And hath made the way of love, whereby I may come to Him, undefiled, as the way of faith is undefiled, whereby He comes to me.
St Gregory Nazianzen The Second Oration on Easter
XVIII. And let the loins of the unreasoning animals be unbound and loose, for they have not the gift of reason which can overcome pleasure (it is not needful to say that even they know the limit of natural movement). But let that part of your being which is the seat of passion, and which neighs, as Holy Scripture calls it, when sweeping away this shameful passion, be restrained by a girdle of continence, so that you may eat the Passover purely, having mortified your members which are upon the earth, and copying the girdle of John, the Hermit and Forerunner and great Herald of the Truth. Another girdle I know, the soldierly and manly one, I mean, from which the Euzoni of Syria and certain Monozoni take their name. …