Psalms 104:10
And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et statuit illud Jacob in præceptum, et Israël in testamentum æternum,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὴν τῷ Ἰακὼβ εἰς πρόσταγμα καὶ τῷ Ἰσραὴλ διαθήκην αἰώνιον,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 105:10
- וַיַּֽעֲמִידֶ֣הָ לְיַעֲקֹ֣ב לְחֹ֑ק לְ֝יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל בְּרִ֣ית עוֹלָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CV
6. “He hath been alway mindful of His covenant” ( ver. 8 ). Other copies read, “for evermore;” and this arises from the ambiguity of the Greek. But if we are to understand “alway” of this world and not of eternity, why, when he explaineth what covenant He was mindful of, doth he add, “The word that He made to a thousand generations”? Now this may be understood with a certain limitation; but he afterwards saith, “Even the covenant that He made with Abraham” ( ver. 9 ): “and the oath that He sware unto Isaac; and appointed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament” ( ver. 10 ). But if in this passage the Old Testament is to be understood, on account of the land of Canaan; for thus the language of the Psalm runneth, “saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance” ( ver. …