1 A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more. 3 For the sceptre 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, LORD, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts. 5 But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
Psalms · World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
Psalm 125 World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
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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)