1 A Song of Ascents. They that trust in the LORD are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about His people, from this time forth and for ever. 3 For the rod of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; that the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity. 4 Do good, O LORD, unto the good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. 5 But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
Psalm 125 JPS Tanakh (1917)
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Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Numbers like (22-2) in the text give the Hebrew verse numbering where it differs.
Cross references (5)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 17:7–8; Psalm 62:2; Proverbs 3:5–6; Psalm 118:8–9; Zechariah 1:17
- 2 Zechariah 2:5; Psalm 121:8; Isaiah 4:5; John 10:28–29; Psalm 34:7
- 3 Isaiah 14:5–6; Psalm 89:22; Proverbs 22:8; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Revelation 2:10
- 4 Psalm 7:10; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 94:15; Psalm 119:68; Psalm 119:80
- 5 Isaiah 59:8; Proverbs 2:15; Psalm 128:6; Galatians 6:16; Psalm 40:4
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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).
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“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).
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)
...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)