Psalms 88:6
The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Confitebuntur cæli mirabilia tua, Domine ; etenim veritatem tuam in ecclesia sanctorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξομολογήσονται οἱ οὐρανοὶ τὰ θαυμάσιά σου, Κύριε, καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ ἁγίων.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 89:6
- וְי֘וֹד֤וּ שָׁמַ֣יִם פִּלְאֲךָ֣ יְהוָ֑ה אַף אֱ֝מֽוּנָתְךָ֗ בִּקְהַ֥ל קְדֹשִֽׁים
Haydock's commentary
Saints. These alone, (Haydock) the heavens or angels, worthily proclaim thy praises. (Haydock)
Preachers announce the same in the Church, (St. Augustine) "the communion of saints," as none are found out of her society. (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 LXXXIX
6. “O Lord, the very Heavens shall praise Thy wondrous works” ( ver. 5 ). The Heavens will not praise their own merits, but Thy wondrous works, O Lord. For in every act of mercy on the lost, of justification of the unrighteous, what do we praise but the wondrous works of God? Thou praisest Him, because the dead have risen: praise Him yet more, because the lost are redeemed. What grace, what mercy of God! Thou seest a man yesterday a whirlpool of drunkenness, to-day an ornament of sobriety: a man yesterday the sink of luxury, to-day the beauty of temperance: yesterday a blasphemer of God, to-day His praiser: yesterday the slave of the creature, to-day the worshipper of the Creator. From all these desperate states men are thus converted: let them not look at their own merits: let them become Heavens, and praise the wondrous works of Him by whom they were made Heavens.…