Psalms 65:16
Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what great things he hath done for my soul.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Venite, audite, et narrabo, omnes qui timetis Deum, quanta fecit animæ meæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δεῦτε ἀκούσατε καὶ διηγήσομαι, πάντες οἱ φοβούμενοι τὸν κύριον, ὅσα ἐποίησεν τῇ ψυχῇ μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 66:16
- לְכֽוּ שִׁמְע֣וּ וַ֭אֲסַפְּרָה כָּל יִרְאֵ֣י אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר עָשָׂ֣ה לְנַפְשִֽׁי
Haydock's commentary
My soul. Every Israelite ought to cherish the same sentiments. (Calmet)
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 LXVI
19. Come ye, hear, and I will tell, all ye that fear God” ( ver. 16 ). Let us come, let us hear, what he is going to tell, “Come ye, hear, and I will tell.” But to whom, “Come ye, and hear”? “All ye that fear God.” If God ye fear not, I will not tell. It is not possible that it be told to any where the fear of God is not. Let the fear of God open the ears, that there may be something to enter in, and a way whereby may enter in that which I am going to tell. But what is he going to tell? “How great things He hath done to my soul.” Behold, he would tell: but what is he going to tell? Is it perchance how widely the earth is spread, how much the sky is extended, and how many are the stars, and what are the changes of sun and of moon? This creation fulfilleth its course: but they have very curiously sought it out, the Creator thereof have not known. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXVI
21. “Therefore God hath hearkened to me” ( ver. 19 ). Because I have not beheld iniquity in my heart. “And He hath listened to the voice of my prayer.” “Blessed be my God, that hath not thrust away my supplication and His mercy from me” ( ver. 20 ). Gather the sense from that place, where he saith, “Come ye, hear, and I will tell you, all ye that fear God, how great things He hath done to my soul:” he hath both said the words which ye have heard, and at the end thus he hath concluded: “Blessed be my God, that hath not thrust away my supplication and His mercy from me.” For thus there arriveth at the Resurrection he that speaketh, where already we also are by hope: yea both it is we ourselves, and this voice is ours. …