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Psalm 125 Unlocked Literal Bible

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 2017
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (1)

1 A song of ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are like Mount Zion, unshakable, forever enduring. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people now and forever. 3 The scepter of wickedness must not rule in the land of the righteous. Otherwise the righteous might do what is wrong. 4 Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good and to those who are upright in their hearts. 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. May 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.

  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).

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)