Psalms 145:10
The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Regnabit Dominus in sæcula ; Deus tuus, Sion, in generationem et generationem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- βασιλεύσει Κύριος εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, ὁ θεός σου, Σιών, εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 146:10
- יִמְלֹ֤ךְ יְהוָ֨ה לְעוֹלָ֗ם אֱלֹהַ֣יִךְ צִ֭יּוֹן לְדֹ֥ר וָדֹ֗ר הַֽלְלוּ יָֽהּ
Haydock's commentary
Sion. Figure of the true Church. God is now more attached to Sion than to any other place. (Berthier)
He lives for ever, and therefore alone deserves our confidence. (Calmet)
Generation. Hebrew adds, "Alleluia," which we have in the next title, as the psalm also begins with the same word. (Haydock)
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 CXLVI
8. “And the way of sinners He shall root out.” What is, “the way of sinners”? To mock at these things which we say. “Who is an orphan, who a widow? What kingdom of heaven, what punishment of hell is there? These are fables of the Christians. To what I see, to that will I live: “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” Beware lest such men persuade you of aught: let them not enter through your ears into your heart; let them find thorns in your ears: let him, who seeketh to enter thus, go away pierced: for “evil communications corrupt good manners.” But here perhaps thou wilt say, “Wherefore then are they prosperous? Behold, they worship not God, and commit every kind of evil daily: yet they abound in those things, through want of which I toil.” Be not envious against sinners. …