Psalms 45:6
God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Deus in medio ejus, non commovebitur ; adjuvabit eam Deus mane diluculo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ θεὸς ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς, οὐ σαλευθήσεται· βοηθήσει αὐτῇ ὁ θεὸς τῷ προσώπῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 46:6
- אֱלֹהִ֣ים בְּ֭קִרְבָּהּ בַּל תִּמּ֑וֹט יַעְזְרֶ֥הָ אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים לִפְנ֥וֹת בֹּֽקֶר
The Fathers on this verse
St Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna On the Day that They Met in the Temple
IX. Let then, says he, what I have thus far said in brief, suffice for the present as my offering of thanks to God. But what shall I say to thee, O mother-virgin and virgin-mother? For the praise even of her who is not man’s work exceeds the power of man. Wherefore the dimness of my poverty I will make bright with the splendour of the gifts of the spirits that around thee shine, and offering to thee of thine own, from the immortal meadows I will pluck a garland for thy sacred and divinely crowned head. With thine ancestral hymns will I greet thee, O daughter of David, and mother of the Lord and God of David. For it were both base and inauspicious to adorn thee, who in thine own glory excellest with that which belongeth unto another. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XLVI
8. “God is in the midst of her: she shall not be moved” ( ver. 5 ). Let the sea rage, the mountains shake; “God is in the midst of her: she shall not be moved.” What is, “in the midst of her”? That God stands in any one place, and they surround Him who believe in Him? Then is God circumscribed by place; and broad that which surroundeth, narrow that which is surrounded? God forbid. No such thing imagine of God, who is contained in no place, whose seat is the conscience of the godly: and so is God’s seat in the hearts of men, that if man fall from God, God in Himself abideth, not falleth like one not finding where to be. For rather doth He lift up thee, that thou mayest be in Him, than so lean upon thee, as if thou withdraw thyself, to fall. Himself if He withdraw, fall wilt thou: thyself if thou withdraw, fall will not He. …