Psalms 19:5
May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy counsels.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tribuat tibi secundum cor tuum, et omne consilium tuum confirmet.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δῴη σοι κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν σου, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν βουλήν σου πληρώσαι.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 20:5
- יִֽתֶּן לְךָ֥ כִלְבָבֶ֑ךָ וְֽכָל עֲצָתְךָ֥ יְמַלֵּֽא
Haydock's commentary
Counsels. We must suppose that those of a pious prince are right. (Calmet)
This condition is always understood. (Haydock)
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 Cyprian The Epistles of Cyprian, Epistle XX
3. For I have heard that you have received the ministry of the purpled ones. Oh, happy are you, even sleeping on the ground, to obtain your wishes which you have always desired! You have desired to be sent into prison for His name’s sake, which now has come to pass; as it is written, “The Lord grant thee according to thine own heart;” and now made a priest of God over them, and the same their minister has acknowledged it. I ask, therefore my lord, and I entreat by our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will refer the case to the rest of your colleagues, your brethren, my lords, and ask from them, that whichever of you is first crowned, should remit such a great sin to those our sisters, Numeria and Candida. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XX
5. “ Diapsalma. ” The Lord render to Thee according to Thine Heart” ( ver. 4 ). The Lord render to Thee, not according to their heart, who thought by persecution they could destroy Thee; but according to Thine Heart, wherein Thou knewest what profit Thy passion would have. “And fulfil all Thy counsel.” “And fulfil all Thy counsel,” not only that whereby Thou didst lay down Thy life for Thy friends, that the corrupted grain might rise again to more abundance; but that also whereby “blindness in part hath happened unto Israel, that the fulness of the Gentiles might enter in, and so all Israel might be saved.”