Psalm 12:3 — how long shall I set counsels in my soul, pains in my heart day and night
“How long shall I set counsels in my soul, pains in my heart day and night?” (Psalm 12:3).
Of the same. Instead of which Symmachus interpreted saying: “Care in my mind by day.” And these things, he says, were written for our admonition, so that we too, with the mindset of the one who has said these thingsre should be need of repentance and confession for some things not rightly done by us, might use the same methods, as it were saving medicines of the soul, timely using the present words of confession.
Greek
12.3 Εως τίνος θήσομαι βουλὰς ἐν ψυχῇ μου, ὀδύνας ἐν καρδίᾳ μου ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτός; Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. ̓Ανθ' ου ὁ Σύμμαχος ἡρμή νευσεν εἰπών· Μέριμναν ἐν τῇ διανοίᾳ μου καθ' ἡμέραν. Ταῦτα δὲ, φησὶν, ἐγράφη εἰς νουθεσίαν ἡμῶν, ο πως καὶ αὐτοὶ, διαθέσει τοῦ ταῦτα εἰρηκότος, εἰ γένοιτο ἡμῖν χρεία μετα νοίας καὶ ἐξομολογήσεως ἐπί τισιν οὐκ ὀρθῶς ἡμῖν πεπραγμένοις, ταῖς αὐταῖς χρησώμεθα μεθόδοις, ω σπερ φαρμάκοις ψυχῆς σωτηρίοις, εὐκαίρως τοῖς παροῦσι λόγοις τῆς ἐξομολο γήσεως χρώμενοι.
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New English from locked PG 12 / Khazarzar Greek of Fragmenta in Psalmos, Psalms 1–22.3. Earlier lemma-led SERIES-CLOSEOUT English was discarded.
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Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 12 Fragmenta in Psalmos (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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