Psalms 62:6
Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sicut adipe et pinguedine repleatur anima mea, et labiis exsultationis laudabit os meum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὡσεὶ στέατος καὶ πιότητος ἐμπλησθείη ἡ ψυχή μου, καὶ χείλη ἀγαλλιάσεως αἰνέσει τὸ ὄνομά σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 63:6
- כְּמ֤וֹ חֵ֣לֶב וָ֭דֶשֶׁן תִּשְׂבַּ֣ע נַפְשִׁ֑י וְשִׂפְתֵ֥י רְ֝נָנ֗וֹת יְהַלֶּל פִּֽי
Haydock's commentary
Fatness. With the most exquisite delights of the temple, Jeremias xxxi. 14. (Calmet)
Thy grace will enable me to give thee due praise (Worthington) with joy. (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 LXIII
10. “So I will speak good of Thee in my life, and in Thy name I will lift up my hands” ( ver. 5 ). Now in my life which to me Thou hast given, not in that which I have chosen after the world with the rest among many lives, but that which Thou hast given to me through Thy mercy, that I should praise Thee. “So I will speak good of Thee in my life.” What is “so”? That to Thy mercy I may ascribe my life wherein Thee I praise, not to my merits. “And in Thy name I will lift up my hands.” Lift up therefore hands in prayer. Our Lord hath lifted up for us His hands on the Cross, and stretched out were His hands for us, and therefore were His hands stretched out on the Cross, in order that our hands might be stretched out unto good works: because His Cross hath brought us mercy. …