Psalms 24:5
Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dirige me in veritate tua, et doce me, quia tu es Deus salvator meus, et te sustinui tota die.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁδήγησόν με ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου καὶ δίδαξόν με, ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ θεὸς ὁ σωτήρ μου, καὶ σὲ ὑπέμεινα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 25:5
- הַדְרִ֘יכֵ֤נִי בַאֲמִתֶּ֨ךָ וְֽלַמְּדֵ֗נִי כִּֽי אַ֭תָּה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׁעִ֑י אוֹתְךָ֥ קִ֝וִּ֗יתִי כָּל הַיּֽוֹם
Haydock's commentary
And teach. If the verse were to commence thus, (Calmet) v would not be out of its place. (Haydock)
Without God's direction, we cannot walk in the narrow path. (Berthier)
Long. We must never cease to desire the knowledge of true doctrine. (Worthington)
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 Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, That Christ our God should come, the Enlightener and Saviour of the human race
In Isaiah: “Be comforted, ye weakened hands; and ye weak knees, be strengthened. Ye who are of a timorous heart, fear not. Our God will recompense judgment, He Himself will come, and will save us. Then shall be opened the eyes of the blind, and the ears of the deaf shall hear. Then the lame man shall leap as a stag, and the tongue of the dumb shall be intelligible; because in the wilderness the water is broken forth, and the stream in the thirsty land.” Also in that place: “Not an elder nor an angel, but the Lord Himself shall deliver them; because He shall love them, and shall spare them, and He Himself shall redeem them.” Also in the same place: “I the Lord God have called Thee in righteousness, that I may hold Thine hand, and I will comfort Thee; and I have given Thee for a covenant of my people, for a light of the nations; to open the eyes of the blind, to bring forth them that are b …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXV
5. “In Thy truth guide me:” avoiding error. “And teach me:” for by myself I know nothing, but falsehood. “For Thou art the God of my salvation; and for Thee have I waited all the day” ( ver. 5 ). For dismissed by Thee from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the wanderer: for my return hath throughout the whole tract of this world’s time waited for Thy mercy.
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter XIII. That the ordering of our way comes from God
And truly the saints have never said that it was by their own efforts that they secured the direction of the way in which they walked in their course towards advance and perfection of virtue, but rather they prayed for it from the Lord, saying “Direct me in Thy truth,” and “direct my way in thy sight.” But someone else declares that he discovered this very fact not only by faith, but also by experience, and as it were from the very nature of things: “I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk and to direct his steps.” And the Lord Himself says to Israel: “I will direct him like a green fir-tree: from Me is thy fruit found.”