Psalms 104:7
He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ipse Dominus Deus noster ; in universa terra judicia ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- αὐτὸς Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν· ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ τὰ κρίματα αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 105:7
- ה֭וּא יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ בְּכָל הָ֝אָ֗רֶץ מִשְׁפָּטָֽיו
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CV
5. Unto whom is it said, “O ye seed of Abraham His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen”? ( ver. 6 ).…He next addeth, “He is the Lord our God: His judgments are in all the world” ( ver. 7 ). Is He the God of the Jews only? God forbid! “He is the Lord our God:” because the Church, where His judgments are preached, is in all the world.…
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).