Psalms 77:68
But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sed elegit tribum Juda, montem Sion, quem dilexit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξελέξατο τὴν φυλὴν Ἰούδα, τὸ ὄρος τὸ Σειὼν ἠγάπησεν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:68
- וַ֭יִּבְחַר אֶת שֵׁ֣בֶט יְהוּדָ֑ה אֶֽת הַ֥ר צִ֝יּ֗וֹן אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָהֵֽב
Haydock's commentary
Sion. The ark was removed from Cariathiarim, in the tribe of Juda, to the house of Obededom, for three months, and afterwards to the palace or tabernacle on Sion, (Haydock) which God had probably chosen for its fixed abode, towards the beginning of David's reign. (Calmet)
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 LXXVIII
34. “And He rejected,” he saith, “the tabernacle of Joseph, and the tribe of Ephraim He chose not” ( ver. 68 ). “And He chose the tribe of Judah” ( ver. 69 ). He hath not said, He rejected the tabernacle of Reuben, who was the first-born son of Jacob; nor them that follow, and precede Judah in order of birth; so that they being rejected and not chosen, the tribe of Judah was chosen. For it might have been said that they were deservedly rejected; because even in the blessing of Jacob wherewith he blessed his sons, he mentioneth their sins, and deeply abhorreth them; though among them the tribe of Levi merited to be the priestly tribe, whence also Moses was. …