Psalms 65:17
I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ad ipsum ore meo clamavi, et exaltavi sub lingua mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πρὸς αὐτὸν τῷ στόματί μου ἐκέκραξα, καὶ ὕψωσα ὑπὸ τὴν γλῶσσάν μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 66:17
- אֵלָ֥יו פִּֽי קָרָ֑אתִי וְ֝רוֹמַ֗ם תַּ֣חַת לְשׁוֹנִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Extolled, by meditation, (Muis) or God has immediately granted my request. (Theodoret)
Some Latin Bibles read, "I have exulted under my tongue," which my heart directs. (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 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. …