Psalms 70:21
Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou hast comforted me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Multiplicasti magnificentiam tuam ; et conversus consolatus es me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πλεονάσας τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου. καὶ ἐπιστρέψας παρεκάλεσάς με, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἀβύσσων πάλιν ἀνήγαγές με.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:21
- תֶּ֤רֶב גְּֽדֻלָּתִ֗י וְתִסֹּ֥ב תְּֽנַחֲמֵֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
Thy. Hebrew and Syriac, "my." Thou hast raised me to the highest honours. St. Augustine, &c., read "thy justice." (Calmet)
Houbigant prefers the Vulgate. (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 Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXI
26. But this was discipline; admonition, not desertion. Lastly, giving thanks, he saith what? “And being turned Thou hast made me alive, and from the bottomless places of the earth again Thou hast brought me back.” But when before? What is this “again”? Thou hast fallen from a high place, O man, disobedient slave, O thou proud against thy Lord, thou hast fallen. There hast come to pass in thee, “every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled:” may there come to pass in thee, “every one that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” Return thou from the deep. I return, he saith, I return, I acknowledge; “O God, who is like unto Thee? How great troubles hast Thou shown to me, many and evil! and being turned Thou hast made me alive, and from the bottomless places of the earth again Thou hast brought me back.” “We perceive,” I hear. …