Psalms 32:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Beata gens cujus est Dominus Deus ejus ; populus quem elegit in hæreditatem sibi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μακάριον τὸ ἔθνος οὗ ἐστιν Κύριος ὁ θεὸς αὐτοῦ, λαὸς ὃν ἐξελέξατο εἰς κληρονομίαν ἑαυτῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 33:12
- אַשְׁרֵ֣י הַ֭גּוֹי אֲשֶׁר יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֑יו הָעָ֓ם בָּחַ֖ר לְנַחֲלָ֣ה לֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Inheritance, in opposition to the Gentiles, 1 Peter ii. 9. (Berthier)
God made choice particularly of the Jews, as he does now of Christians. (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 XXXIII
12. “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord:” one nation is blessed, belonging to the heavenly city, which hath not chosen save the Lord for their God: “And the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance” ( ver. 12 ): and which not of itself, but by the gift of God, hath been chosen, that He by possessing it may not suffer it to be uncared for and miserable.
St John Chrysostom The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch, Homily XVIII
10. Since therefore those who are scourged are more blessed than the scourgers, and those in tribulation among us than those who are free from it outside the Christian pale; and those who are sad are more blessed than those in pleasure; what further source of tribulation shall we have? On this account we should call no man happy, save him only who lives according to God. These only the Scripture terms blessed. For “blessed,” it is said, “is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly. Blessed is he whom Thou chastenest, and teachest him out of Thy law. Blessed are the undefiled in the way. Blessed are all they who trust in Him. Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord. Blessed is he whom his soul condemneth not. …