Psalms 9:2
I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Confitebor tibi, Domine, in toto corde meo ; narrabo omnia mirabilia tua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐξομολογήσομαι σοι, Κύριε, ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ μου, διηγήσομαι πάντα τὰ θαυμάσιά σου·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אוֹדֶ֣ה יְ֭הוָה בְּכָל לִבִּ֑י אֲ֝סַפְּרָ֗ה כָּל נִפְלְאוֹתֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Praise and thanks, or I will confess. (Worthington)
To thee. Hebrew, "to the." David had received many favours from God, and he has testified his gratitude, and shewn how we ought to praise God, (St. Jerome; Calmet) with soul and body. (Berthier; Worthington)
Wonders; victories gained over the neighbouring nations, so that Israel was at peace and liberty to transport the ark to Sion, 1 Paralipomenon xv.
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 IX
2. “I will confess unto Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart” ( ver. 1 ). He doth not, with a whole heart, confess unto God, who doubteth of His Providence in any particular: but he who sees already the hidden things of the wisdom of God, how great is His invisible reward, who saith, “We rejoice in tribulations;” and how all torments, which are inflicted on the body, are either for the exercising of those that are converted to God, or for warning that they be converted, or for just preparation of the obdurate unto their last damnation: and so now all things are referred to the governance of Divine Providence, which fools think done as it were by chance and at random, and without any Divine ordering. “I will tell all Thy marvels.” He tells all God’s marvels, who sees them performed not only openly on the body, but invisibly indeed too in the soul, but far more sublimely and excellently. …