Psalms 69:5
Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Exsultent et lætentur in te omnes qui quærunt te ; et dicant semper : Magnificetur Dominus, qui diligunt salutare tuum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀγαλλιάσθωσαν καὶ εὐφρανθήτωσαν ἐπὶ σοὶ πάντες οἱ ζητοῦντές σε, καὶ λεγέτωσαν διὰ παντός Μεγαλυνθήτω ὁ θεός, οἱ ἀγαπῶντες τὸ σωτήριόν σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 70:5
- יָ֘שִׂ֤ישׂוּ וְיִשְׂמְח֨וּ בְּךָ֗ כָּֽל מְבַ֫קְשֶׁ֥יךָ וְיֹאמְר֣וּ תָ֭מִיד יִגְדַּ֣ל אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֹ֝הֲבֵ֗י יְשׁוּעָתֶֽךָ
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen, Chapter X. Answer to the Objection of the Heathen, that It Was Not Right to Abandon the Customs of Their Fathers
For what, think you, O men, is the Hermes of Typho, and that of Andocides, and that of Amyetus? Is it not evident to all that they are stones, as is the veritable Hermes himself? As the Halo is not a god, and as the Iris is not a god, but are states of the atmosphere and of the clouds; and as, likewise, a day is not a god, nor a year, nor time, which is made up of these, so neither is sun nor moon, by which each of those mentioned above is determined. Who, then, in his right senses, can imagine Correction, and Punishment, and Justice, and Retribution to be gods? For neither the Furies, nor the Fates, nor Destiny are gods, since neither Government, nor Glory, nor Wealth are gods, which last [as Plutus] painters represent as blind. But if you deify Modesty, and Love, and Venus, let these be followed by Infamy, and Passion, and Beauty, and Intercourse. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXX
6. And what cometh to pass when they are all turned back and blush, whether it be they that seek my soul, or they that think evil things to me, or they that with perverse and feigned benevolence with tongue would soften the stroke which they inflict, when they shall have been themselves turned away and confounded; there shall come to pass what? “Let them exult and be joyous in Thee:” not in me, not in this man or in that man; but in whom they have been made light that were darkness. “Let them exult and be joyous in Thee, all that seek Thee” ( ver. 4 ). One thing it is to seek God, another thing to seek man. “Let them be joyous that seek Thee.” They shall not be joyous then that seek themselves, whom Thou hast first sought before they sought Thee. …