Psalms 67:4
And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted with gladness.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et justi epulentur, et exsultent in conspectu Dei, et delectentur in lætitia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ οἱ δίκαιοι εὐφρανθήτωσαν, διάψαλμα. ἀγαλλιάσθωσαν ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ, τερφθήτωσαν ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 68:4
- וְֽצַדִּיקִ֗ים יִשְׂמְח֣וּ יַֽ֭עַלְצוּ לִפְנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִ֗ים וְיָשִׂ֥ישׂוּ בְשִׂמְחָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Feast. This was done when the ark was removed, 1 Paralipomenon xv., and xvi. 3. (Calmet)
But believers may now receive God himself. (St. Ambrose) (Psalm xxxix.) (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 Cyprian Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, That Jesus Christ shall come as a Judge
In Malachi: “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, burning as an oven; and all the aliens and all the wicked shall be as stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord.” Also in the forty-ninth (or fiftieth) Psalm: “God the Lord of gods hath spoken, and called the earth. From the rising of the sun even to the going down thereof, out of Sion is the beauty of His glory. God shall come manifestly, our God, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before Him, and round about Him shall be a great storm. He hath called the heaven above, and the earth, that He may separate His people. Gather together His saints unto Him, those who arrange His covenant with sacrifices. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXVIII
4. Lastly, there followeth, “And let just men be joyous, and exult in the sight of God, let them delight in gladness” ( ver. 3 ). For then shall they hear, “Come, ye blessed of My Father, receive ye the kingdom.” “Let them be joyous,” therefore, that have toiled, “and exult in the sight of God.” For there will not be in this exultation, as though it were before men, any empty boasting; but (it will be) in the sight of Him who unerringly looketh into that which He hath granted. “Let them delight in gladness:” no longer exulting with trembling, as in this world, so long as “human life is a trial upon earth.” Secondly, he turneth himself to those very persons to whom he hath given so great hope, and to them while here living he speaketh and exhorteth: “Sing ye to God, psalm ye to His name” ( ver. 4 ). …