Psalms 89:12
Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- dinumerare ? Dexteram tuam sic notam fac, et eruditos corde in sapientia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὴν δεξιάν σου γνώρισον, καὶ τοὺς πεπαιδευμένους τῇ καρδίᾳ ἐν σοφίᾳ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 90:12
- לִמְנ֣וֹת יָ֭מֵינוּ כֵּ֣ן הוֹדַ֑ע וְ֝נָבִ֗א לְבַ֣ב חָכְמָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Thy right hand. Your Messias, to liberate and instruct us. (St. Augustine)
"Make us know how to number our days thus, and we shall come to thee with a wise heart." (St. Jerome) (Ecclesiasticus vii. 40.) (Haydock)
Septuagint have read iminoc for yamenu, "our days." (Amama)
Make us truly wise, (Sa) or acquainted with teachers of truth. (Bellarmine) (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 Letter XCIII
28. We, however, are certain that no one could ever have been warranted in separating himself from the communion of all nations, because every one of us looks for the marks of the Church not in his own righteousness, but in the Divine Scriptures, and beholds it actually in existence, according to the promises. For it is of the Church that it is said,“As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters;” which could be called on the one hand “thorns” only by reason of the wickedness of their manners, and on the other hand “daughters” by reason of their participation in the same sacraments. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XC
12. “Make Thy right hand so well known” ( ver. 12 ). This is the reading of most of the Greek copies: not of some in Latin, which is thus, “Make Thy right hand well known to me.” What is, “Thy right hand,” but Thy Christ, of whom it is said, And to whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed? Make Him so well known, that Thy faithful may learn in Him to ask and to hope for those things rather of Thee as rewards of their faith, which do not appear in the Old Testament, but are revealed in the New: that they may not imagine that the happiness derived from earthly and temporal blessings is to be highly esteemed, desired, or loved, and thus their feet slip, when they see it in men who honour Thee not: that their steps may not give way, while they know not how to number Thine anger. …