Psalms 70:16
I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice alone.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- introibo in potentias Domini ; Domine, memorabor justitiæ tuæ solius.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰσελεύσομαι ἐν δυναστίᾳ Κυρίου· Κύριε, μνησθήσομαι τῆς δικαιοσύνης σου μόνου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:16
- אָב֗וֹא בִּ֭גְבֻרוֹת אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה אַזְכִּ֖יר צִדְקָתְךָ֣ לְבַדֶּֽךָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXI
18. With reason there followeth, “I will enter into the power of the Lord:” not mine own, but the Lord’s. For they gloried in their own power of the letter, therefore grace joined to the letter they knew not.…But because “the letter killeth, but the Spirit maketh alive:” “I have not known literature, and I will enter into the power of the Lord.” Therefore this verse following doth strengthen and perfect the sense, so as to fix it in the hearts of men, and not suffer any other interpretation to steal in from any quarter. “O Lord, I will be mindful of Thy righteousness alone” ( ver. 16 ). Ah! “alone.” Why hath he added “alone,” I ask you? It would suffice to say, “I will be mindful of Thy righteousness.” “alone,” he saith, entirely: there of mine own I think not. …