Psalms 65:20
Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Benedictus Deus, qui non amovit orationem meam, et misericordiam suam a me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εὐλογητὸς ὁ θεὸς ὃς οὐκ ἀπέστησεν τὴν προσευχήν μου καὶ τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 66:20
- בָּר֥וּךְ אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא הֵסִ֘יר תְּפִלָּתִ֥י וְ֝חַסְדּ֗וֹ מֵאִתִּֽי
The Fathers on this verse
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. …
Theodoret Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, Bishop of Cyprus, Letter or Address of Theodoret to the Monks of the Euphratensian, the Osrhoene, Syria, Phœnicia, and Cilicia
These words and words like these I implore you to utter to the God of all; for He is good and full of loving-kindness and ever fulfils the will of them that fear Him. He will therefore listen to your prayer, and will scatter this darkness deeper than the plague of Egypt. He will give you His own calm of love, and will gather them that are scattered abroad and welcome them that have been cast out. Then shall be heard “the voice of rejoicing and salvation in the tabernacles of the righteous.” Then shall we cry unto Him we have been “glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil,” and you when you have been granted your prayer shall praise Him in the words “Blessed be God which not turned away my prayer nor His mercy from me.”