Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
141. On account of this law the younger suffered persecution from the elder, so that the younger saith what followeth: "Trouble and hardship have taken hold upon me: yet is my meditation in Thy commandments" (ver. 143). Let them rage, let them persecute; as long as the commandments of God be not abandoned, and, after those commandments, let even those who rage be loved.
Trouble. Such is the portion of the just, Romans v. 3.
Mediation. Hebrew, "joy. "(Symmachus) (Calmet)
The sense is the same. Septuagint generally give the former meaning, as they render by seeking what moderns would restrain to signify observing, ver. 145 (Berthier)
