Blessed AugustineExposition on Psalm 19 · on Psalm 19:3
"Send You help from the Holy, and from Sion defend You". Making for You a sanctified Body, the Church, from watching safe, which waits when You shall come from the wedding.
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The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob defend thee.
Ἐπακούσαι σου Κύριος ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως, ὑπερασπίσαι σου τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἰακώβ.
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Send thee help from the sanctuary, And aid thee out of Zion.
Ἐξαποστείλαι σοι βοήθειαν ἐξ ἁγίου, καὶ ἐκ Σιὼν ἀντιλάβοιτό σου.
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Remember all thy sacrifice, And enrich thy whole burnt offering. Pause.
Μνησθείη πάσης θυσίας σου, καὶ τὸ ὁλοκαύτωμά σου πιανάτω· διάψαλμα.
Blessed AugustineExposition on Psalm 19 · on Psalm 19:4
"Be mindful of all Your sacrifice". Make us mindful of all Your injuries and despiteful treatment, which You have borne for us. "And be Your whole burnt offering made fat." And turn the cross, whereon You were wholly offered up to God, into the joy of the resurrection.
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Grant thee according to thy heart, And fulfill all thy desire.
Δῴη σοι κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν σου, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν βουλήν σου πληρώσαι.
Blessed AugustineExposition on Psalm 19 · on Psalm 19:5
"Diapsalma." The Lord render to Thee according to Thine Heart" (ver. 4). The Lord render to Thee, not according to their heart, who thought by persecution they could destroy Thee; but according to Thine Heart, wherein Thou knewest what profit Thy passion would have. "And fulfil all Thy counsel." "And fulfil all Thy…
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We will exult in thy salvation, And in the name of our God shall we be magnified: The Lord fulfill all thy petitions.
Ἀγαλλιασόμεθα ἐν τῷ σωτηρίῳ σου, καὶ ἐν ὀνόματι Θεοῦ ἡμῶν μεγαλυνθησόμεθα· πληρώσαι Κύριος πάντα τὰ αἰτήματά σου.
Blessed AugustineExposition on Psalm 19 · on Psalm 19:6
"We will exult in Your salvation". We will exult in that death will in no wise hurt You; for so You will also show that it cannot hurt us either. "And in the name of the Lord our God will we be magnified." And the confession of Your name shall not only not destroy us, but shall even magnify us.
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Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: He shall hear him from his holy heaven: The salvation of his right hand is mighty.
Νῦν ἔγνων ὅτι ἔσωσε Κύριος τὸν χριστὸν αὐτοῦ· ἐπακούσεται αὐτοῦ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἁγίου αὐτοῦ, ἐν δυναστείαις ἡ σωτηρία τῆς δεξιᾶς αὐτοῦ.
Blessed AugustineExposition on Psalm 19 · on Psalm 19:7
"The Lord fulfil all Your petitions." The Lord fulfil not only the petitions which You made on earth, but those also whereby Thou intercedest for us in heaven. "Now have I known that the Lord has saved his Christ". Now has it been shown to me in prophecy, that the Lord will raise up His Christ again. "He will hear Him…
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Some glory in chariots, and some in horses: But we will glory in the name of the Lord our God.
Οὗτοι ἐν ἅρμασι καὶ οὗτοι ἐν ἵπποις, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου Θεοῦ ἡμῶν μεγαλυνθησόμεθα.
Blessed AugustineExposition on Psalm 19 · on Psalm 19:8
"Some in chariots, and some in horses". Some are drawn away by the ever moving succession of temporal goods; and some are preferred to proud honours, and in them exult: "But we will exult in the name of the Lord our God." But we, fixing our hope on things eternal, and not seeking our own glory, will exult in the name…
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They are overthrown and fallen: But we are risen, and have been set upright.
Αὐτοὶ συνεποδίσθησαν καὶ ἔπεσαν, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἀνέστημεν καὶ ἀνωρθώθημεν.
Blessed AugustineExposition on Psalm 19 · on Psalm 19:9
"They have been bound, and fallen". And therefore were they bound by the lust of temporal things, fearing to spare the Lord, lest they should lose their place by "the Romans:" [John 11:48] and rushing violently on the stone of offense and rock of stumbling, they fell from the heavenly hope: to whom the blindness in…
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O Lord, save the king: And hear us in whatever day we call upon thee.
Κύριε σῶσον τὸν βασιλέα καὶ ἐπάκουσον ἡμῶν, ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπικαλεσώμεθά σε.
Blessed AugustineExposition on Psalm 19 · on Psalm 19:10
"O Lord, save the King:" that He, who in His Passion hath shown us an example of conflict, should also offer up our sacrifices, the Priest raised from the dead, and established in heaven. "And hear us in the day when we shall call on Thee" (ver. 9). And as He now offereth for us, "hear us in the day when we shall call…
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- Blessed Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, tr. A. Cleveland Coxe from the Oxford translation, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888).
- Scripture: the Septuagint, in the translation of Sir Lancelot Brenton (1851), with spelling updated by Adam Boyd (2020); the Greek is Brenton's Septuagint text.
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