Psalms 70:8
Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory; thy greatness all the day long.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Repleatur os meum laude, ut cantem gloriam tuam, tota die magnitudinem tuam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πληρωθήτω τὸ στόμα μου αἰνέσεως, ὅπως ὑμνήσω τὴν δόξαν σου, ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν τὴν μεγαλοπρεπίαν σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:8
- יִמָּ֣לֵא פִ֭י תְּהִלָּתֶ֑ךָ כָּל הַ֝יּ֗וֹם תִּפְאַרְתֶּֽךָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXI
9. “Let my mouth be fulfilled with praise, that with hymn I may tell of Thy glory, all the day long Thy magnificence” ( ver. 8 ). What is “all the day long”? Without intermission. In prosperity, because Thou dost comfort: in adversity, because Thou dost correct: before I was in being, because Thou didst make; when I was in being, because Thou didst give health: when I had sinned, because Thou didst forgive; when I was converted, because Thou didst help; when I had persevered, because Thou didst crown.
St Ambrose Letter XLI: To Marcellina on the Same
14. “Thou gavest Me no kiss, but she from the time she came in hath not ceased to kiss My feet.” A kiss is the sign of love. Whence, then, can a Jew have a kiss, seeing he has not known peace, nor received peace from Christ when He said: “My peace I give you, My peace I leave you.” The Synagogue has not a kiss, but the Church has, who waited for Him, who loved Him, who said: “Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth.” For by His kisses she wished gradually to quench the burning of that long desire, which had grown with looking for the coming of the Lord, and to satisfy her thirst by this gift. And so the holy prophet says: “Thou shalt open my mouth, and it shall declare Thy praise.” He, then, who praises the Lord Jesus kisses Him, he who praises Him undoubtedly believes. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).