Psalms 67:29
Command thy strength, O God: confirm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Manda, Deus, virtuti tuæ ; confirma hoc, Deus, quod operatus es in nobis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔντειλαι, θεός, τῇ δυνάμει σου, δυνάμωσον, ὁ θεός, τοῦτο ὃ κατηρτίσω ἡμῖν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 68:29
- צִוָּ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ עֻ֫זֶּ֥ךָ עוּזָּ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֑ים ז֝֗וּ פָּעַ֥לְתָּ לָּֽנוּ
Haydock's commentary
Command thy strength. Give orders that thy strength may be always with us. (Challoner)
Display thy power from thy holy temple. (Haydock)
Send the Messias, grant perseverance to the just, and defend thy Church against all attacks. (Calmet)
As she commenced by God's power, so by the same she is continually preserved. (Worthington)
Hebrew, "Thy God hath commanded thy strength." (Protestants) or, "command thy God." (Berthier)
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 Letter CCXIII
“It is unnecessary for me to say anything in praise of Eraclius; I esteem his wisdom and spare his modesty; it is enough that you know him: and I declare that I desire in regard to him what I know you also to desire, and if I had not known it before, I would have had proof of it today. This, therefore, I desire; this I ask from the Lord our God in prayers, the warmth of which is not abated by the chill of age; this I exhort, admonish, and entreat you also to pray for along with me, that God may confirm that, which He has wrought in us by blending and fusing together the minds of all in the peace of Christ. May He who has sent him to me preserve him! preserve him safe, preserve him blameless, that as he gives me joy while I live, he may fill my place when I die.
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXVIII
34. “Command, O God, Thy Virtue” ( ver. 28 ). For one is our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we in Him, of whom we read that He is “the Virtue of God and the Wisdom of God.” But how doth God command His Christ, save while He commendeth Him? For “God commendeth His love in us, in that while yet we were sinners, for us Christ died.” “How hath He not also with Him given to us all things?” “Command, O God, Thy Virtue: confirm, O God, that which Thou hast wrought in us.” Command by teaching, confirm by aiding.