Psalms 43:19
And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
Open Psalms 43:19 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et non recessit retro cor nostrum ; et declinasti semitas nostras a via tua :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ οὐκ ἀπέστη εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐξέκλινας τοὺς τρίβους ἡμῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 44:19
- לֹא נָס֣וֹג אָח֣וֹר לִבֵּ֑נוּ וַתֵּ֥ט אֲשֻׁרֵ֗ינוּ מִנִּ֥י אָרְחֶֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
Neither. Literally, "and or yet." (Haydock)
But the negative particle is taken (Worthington) from the first part of the verse. (Calmet)
St. Jerome, "Neither hast thou," &c. (Menochius)
Yet many adhere to the Hebrew, &c., "And thou hast turned," &c. Though it may be taken in a dangerous sense, (Calmet) yet it may only signify, (Haydock) that God had removed his people from the country where his worship was observed, and had refused them his protection; hence their paths have been unfortunate. (Theodoret)
This agrees better with the sequel. (Berthier)
It is no proof that God is the author of sin, in either sense. (Tirinus)
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 A Treatise on Nature and Grace, Pride Even in Such Things as are Done Aright Must Be Avoided. Free Will is Not Taken Away When Grace is Preached
So will He bestow on us whatever pleases Him, that if there be anything displeasing to Him in us, it will also be displeasing to us. “He will,” as the Scripture has said, “turn aside our paths from His own way,” and will make that which is His own to be our way; because it is by Himself that the favour is bestowed on such as believe in Him and hope in Him that we will do it. For there is a way of righteousness of which they are ignorant “who have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge,” and who, wishing to frame a righteousness of their own, “have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.” “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth;” and He has said, “I am the way.” Yet God’s voice has alarmed those who have already begun to walk in this way, lest they should be lifted up, as if it were by their own energies that they were walking …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XLIV
“Our heart has not turned back; and Thou hast turned aside our goings out of Thy way” ( ver. 18 ). See here is “understanding,” in that “our heart has not gone back;” that we have not “forgotten Thee, have not behaved frowardly in Thy covenant;” placed as we are in great tribulations, and persecutions of the Gentiles. “Thou hast turned aside our goings out of Thy way.” Our “goings” were in the pleasures of the world; our “goings” were in the midst of temporal prosperities. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XLIV
15. “For Thou hast brought us low in the place of infirmity” ( ver. 18 ): therefore Thou wilt exalt us in the place of strength. “And the shadow of death has covered us” ( ver. 19 ). For this mortality of ours is but the “shadow” of death. The true death is condemnation with the devil.
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Eustochium
19. In her frequent sicknesses and infirmities she used to say, “when I am weak, then am I strong:” “we have our treasure in earthen vessels” until “this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality” and again “as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ:” and then as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. In sorrow she used to sing: “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God.” In the hour of danger she used to say: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me:” and again “whosoever will save his life shall lose it,” and “whosoever will lose his life for my sake the same shall save it.” When the exhaust …