Psalms 76:13
And I will meditate on all thy works: and will be employed in thy inventions.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et meditabor in omnibus operibus tuis, et in adinventionibus tuis exercebor.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ μελετήσω ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔργοις σου, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασίν σου ἀδολεσχήσω.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 77:13
- וְהָגִ֥יתִי בְכָל פָּעֳלֶ֑ךָ וּֽבַעֲלִ֖ילוֹתֶ֣יךָ אָשִֽׂיחָה
Haydock's commentary
Inventions. Protestants, "doings," (Haydock) or the secrets of Providence, (Calmet) and his "affections." (St. Augustine)
The just find an interest in all his works, (Berthier) as they work together for their salvation, Romans viii. 28. (Haydock)
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 LXXVII
13. “And I will meditate on all Thy works, and on Thy affections I will babble” ( ver. 12 ). Behold the third babbling! He babbled without, when he hinted; he babbled in his spirit within, when he advanced: he babbled on the works of God, when he arrived at the place toward which he advanced. “And on Thy affections:” not on any affections. What man doth live without affections? And do ye suppose, brethren, that they who fear God, worship God, love God, have not any affections? Wilt thou indeed suppose and dare to suppose, that painting, the theatre, hunting, hawking, fishing, engage the affections, and the meditation on God doth not engage certain interior affections of its own, while we contemplate the universe, and place before our eyes the spectacle of the natural world, and therein labour to discover the Maker, and find Him nowhere unpleasing, but pleasing above all things?