Psalms 113:26
But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sed nos qui vivimus, benedicimus Domino, ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀλλ᾽ ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες εὐλογήσωμεν τὸν κύριον ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν καὶ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 115:18
- וַאֲנַ֤חְנוּ נְבָ֘רֵ֤ךְ יָ֗הּ מֵֽעַתָּ֥ה וְעַד עוֹלָ֗ם הַֽלְלוּ יָֽהּ
Haydock's commentary
Live. In the state of justice, and aspiring to God's kingdom. While we use this world only as the means to ascend thither, we shall praise him for evermore. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXV
12. …But nevertheless since they derive the truth and richness of wisdom, not from man nor through man, but through God Himself, they have received little ones who shall be heaven, that they may know that they are heaven of heaven; as yet however earth, unto which they say, “I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.” For to those very sons of men whom He made heaven, He who knoweth how to provide for the earth through heaven, hath given earth upon which they work. May they therefore abide, heaven and earth, in their God, who made them, and let them live from Him, confessing unto Him, and praising Him; for if they choose to live from themselves, they shall die, as it is written, “From the dead, as though he were not, confession ceaseth.” But, “The dead praise not Thee, O Lord, neither all they that go down into silence” ( ver. 17 ). …