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Psalm 124 (125) Catholic Public Domain Version

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 125 · About the recordings

Notes on this text (4)

Psalm 124 in CPDV = Psalm 125 in WEB.

CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Canticle in steps. Those who trust in the Lord will be like the mountain of Zion. He will not be disturbed for eternity, who dwells
125:1 A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
2 in Jerusalem. Mountains surround it. And the Lord surrounds his people, from this time forward and even forever.
125:2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
3 For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to remain over the lot of the just, so that the just may not extend their hands toward iniquity.
125:3 For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous, so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
4 Do good, O Lord, to the good and to the upright of heart.
125:4 Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.
5 But those who turn away into obligation, the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
125:5 But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
Cross references (5)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.

  1. 1 Jeremiah 17:7–8; Psalm 62:2; Proverbs 3:5–6; Psalm 118:8–9; Zechariah 1:17
  2. 2 Zechariah 2:5; Psalm 121:8; Isaiah 4:5; John 10:28–29; Psalm 34:7
  3. 3 Isaiah 14:5–6; Psalm 89:22; Proverbs 22:8; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Revelation 2:10
  4. 4 Psalm 7:10; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 94:15; Psalm 119:68; Psalm 119:80
  5. 5 Isaiah 59:8; Proverbs 2:15; Psalm 128:6; Galatians 6:16; Psalm 40:4

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 125.

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXIV)

    Ye already well know, dearest brethren, that a "Song of Degrees," is a song of our ascent: and that this ascent is not effected by the feet of the body, but by the affections of the heart.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 125:4 Gregory of Nazianzus, Theological Orations (The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son)

    ...Words of God, speaking to Saul about David. Or again, Do good, O Lord, unto the good...and all other like expressions concerning those of us who are praised, upon whom it is a kind of effluence from the Supreme Good, and has come to them in a secondary degree.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)