Psalms 134:21
Blessed be the Lord out of Sion, who dwelleth in Jerusalem.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Benedictus Dominus ex Sion, qui habitat in Jerusalem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εὐλογητὸς Κύριος ἐκ Σιών, ὁ κατοικῶν Ἰερουσαλήμ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 135:21
- בָּ֘ר֤וּךְ יְהוָ֨ה מִצִּיּ֗וֹן שֹׁ֘כֵ֤ן יְֽרוּשָׁלִָ֗ם הַֽלְלוּ יָֽהּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXXXV
16. Let us also with one voice say what follows: “Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, who dwelleth in Jerusalem” ( ver. 21 ). Out of Zion is Jerusalem too. Zion is “watching,” Jerusalem the “vision of peace.” In what Jerusalem will He dwell now? In that which has fallen? Nay, but in that which is our mother, which is in the heavens, of which it is said, “The desolate hath more children than she which hath a husband.” For now the Lord is from Zion, because we watch when He will come; now as long as we live in hope, we are in Zion. When our way is ended, we shall dwell in that city which will never fall, because the Lord dwelleth in her, and keepeth her, which is the vision of peace, the eternal Jerusalem; for the praise of which, my brethren, language sufficeth not; where we shall find no enemy, either within the Church or without the Church, neither in our flesh, nor in our thoughts. …