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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst

Psalm 77:4

Gerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622 · Centraal Museum, Utrecht · Public domainGerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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Psalm 77:4 (WEB)

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

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Augustine of Hippo

Jerome

  • “To the same effect in different words the prophet says:—“I am so troubled that I cannot speak,” and in the same book, “Be ye angry and sin not.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxvii. 4.

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  • “…of her children and particularly of Toxotius whom she dearly loved, she first by her self-control fulfilled the saying: “I was troubled and I did not speak,” and then cried out in the words of scripture, “He that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxvii. 4, Vulg.

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