Psalms 134:20
Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: you that fear the Lord, bless the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Domus Levi, benedicite Domino ; qui timetis Dominum, benedicite Domino.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἶκος Λευεί, εὐλογήσατε τὸν κύριον, οἱ φοβούμενοι τὸν κύριον, εὐλογήσατε τὸν κύριον.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 135:20
- בֵּ֣ית הַ֭לֵּוִי בָּרֲכ֣וּ אֶת יְהוָ֑ה יִֽרְאֵ֥י יְ֝הוָ֗ה בָּרֲכ֥וּ אֶת יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Fear. It was important to distinguish the priests from the people. (Calmet)
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 CXXXV
15. But daily do men believe through the miracles of Christ our Lord; daily the eyes of the blind, the ears of the deaf are opened, the nostrils of the senseless are breathed into, the tongues of the dumb are loosed, the hands of the palsied are strengthened, the feet of the lame are guided; sons of Abraham are raised up of these stones, to all of whom be it said, “Bless the Lord, ye house of Israel” ( ver. 19 ). All are sons of Abraham; and if sons of Abraham are raised up from these stones, it is plain that they are rather the house of Israel who belong to the house of Israel, the seed of Abraham, not by the flesh, but by faith. But even granting that it is said of that house, and the people of Israel is meant, from thence did the Apostles and thousands of the circumcised believe? “Bless the Lord, ye house of Aaron. Bless the Lord, ye house of Levi” ( ver. 20 ). …