Psalms 24:21
The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Innocentes et recti adhæserunt mihi, quia sustinui te.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἄκακοι καὶ εὐθεῖς ἐκολλῶντό μοι, ὅτι ὑπέμεινά σε, Κύριε.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 25:21
- תֹּם וָיֹ֥שֶׁר יִצְּר֑וּנִי כִּ֝֗י קִוִּיתִֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Adhered. Hebrew, "innocence, &c., have kept me." (Calmet)
Those faithful subjects, who have accompanied me in my flight, stand guard to protect me. Requite them, O Lord, and grant peace to all my people. (Haydock)
My example encourages them to follow thy law, and they will be staggered, if thou grant not my request. (Menochius)
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 XXV
21. “The innocent and the upright have cleaved to me, for I have waited for Thee, O Lord” ( ver. 21 ). The innocent and the upright, not in bodily presence only, as the evil, are mingled with me, but in the agreement of the heart in the same innocence and uprightness cleave to me: for I have not fallen away to imitate the evil; but I have waited for Thee, expecting the winnowing of Thy last harvest.