Psalms 70:19
And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et justitiam tuam, Deus, usque in altissima ; quæ fecisti magnalia, Deus : quis similis tibi ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου, ὁ θεός, ἕως ὑψίστων, ἃ ἐποίησας μεγαλεῖα. ὁ θεός, τίς ὅμοιός σοι;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:19
- וְצִדְקָתְךָ֥ אֱלֹהִ֗ים עַד מָ֫ר֥וֹם אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂ֥יתָ גְדֹל֑וֹת אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים מִ֣י כָמֽוֹךָ
Haydock's commentary
The great things. Thou hast even punished the rebel angels. (Menochius)
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 Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXI
22. “Thy power and Thy righteousness” ( ver. 19 ). That is, that I may tell forth to every generation that is yet to come, Thine arm. And what hath Thine arm effected? This then let me tell forth, that same grace to every generation succeeding: let me say to every man that is to be born, nothing thou art by thyself, on God call thou, thine own are sins, merits are God’s: punishment to thee is owing, and when reward shall have come, His own gifts He will crown, not thy merits. Let me say to every generation that is to come, out of captivity thou hast come, unto Adam thou didst belong. …
St Ambrose Concerning Repentance, Chapter IX. By collating similar passages with 1 Sam. iii. 25, St. Ambrose shows that the meaning is not that no one shall intercede, but that the intercessor must be worthy as were Moses and Jeremiah, at whose prayers we read that God spared Israel
41. Then you have in the fifteenth Psalm: “Lord, who shall dwell in Thy tabernacle, or who shall rest upon Thy holy hill?” It is not that no one, but that he who is approved shall dwell there, nor does it say that no one shall rest, but he who is chosen shall rest. And that you may know that this is true, it is said not much later in the twenty-fourth Psalm: “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord, or who shall stand in His holy place?” The writer implies, not any ordinary person, or one of the common sort, but only a man of excellent life and of singular merit. …