Psalms 77:55
And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
Open Psalms 77:55 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et habitare fecit in tabernaculis eorum tribus Israël.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξέβαλεν ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν ἔθνη, καὶ ἐκληροδότησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν σχοινίῳ κληροδοσίας, καὶ κατεσκήνωσεν ἐν τοῖς σκηνώμασιν αὐτῶν ταῖς φυλαῖς τοῦ Ἰσραήλ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:55
- וַיְגָ֤רֶשׁ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֨ם גּוֹיִ֗ם וַֽ֭יַּפִּילֵם בְּחֶ֣בֶל נַחֲלָ֑ה וַיַּשְׁכֵּ֥ן בְּ֝אָהֳלֵיהֶ֗ם שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
21. In the second place, that we may not seem to do violence to divine words, and lest in the place where there was said, “He will not destroy them,” we should say, “But hereafter He will destroy them:” concerning this very present Psalm let us turn to a very common phrase of the Scripture, whereby this question may be more diligently and more truly solved. Speaking of these same persons a little lower down, when He had made mention of the things which the Egyptians because of them had endured, He saith,…“And He led them unto the mount of His sanctification, the mount which His right hand won. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
30. In the next place there followeth, “And He led them into the mountain of His sanctification” ( ver. 54 ). How much better into Holy Church! “The mountain which His right hand hath gotten.” How much higher is the Church which Christ hath gotten, concerning whom has been said, “And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” ( ver. 55 ). “And He cast forth from the face of them the nations.” And from the face of His faithful. For nations in a manner are the evil spirits of Gentile errors. “And by lot He divided unto them the land in the cord of distribution.” And in us “all things one and the same Spirit doth work, dividing severally to every one as He willeth.”