Psalms 95:2
Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cantate Domino, et benedicite nomini ejus ; annuntiate de die in diem salutare ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ᾄσατε τῷ κυρίῳ, εὐλογήσατε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, εὐαγγελίζεσθε ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας τὸ σωτήριον αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 96:2
- שִׁ֣ירוּ לַ֭יהוָה בָּרֲכ֣וּ שְׁמ֑וֹ בַּשְּׂר֥וּ מִיּֽוֹם לְ֝י֗וֹם יְשׁוּעָתֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Lord....his name. As ver. 7., and 8. The plural and singular denote the Trinity. (Worthington)
Shew forth. Septuagint, "evangelize," bene nuntiate. (St. Augustine)
"Tell the glad tidings" of salvation incessantly. This preaching shall continue for ever. (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 City of God, How Hermes Openly Confessed the Error of His Forefathers, the Coming Destruction of Which He Nevertheless Bewailed
For if he had only said, without mentioning the cause, that his forefathers had discovered the art of making gods, it would have been our duty, if we paid any regard to what is right and pious, to consider and to see that they could never have attained to this art if they had not erred from the truth, if they had believed those things which are worthy of God, if they had attended to divine worship and service. However, if we alone should say that the causes of this art were to be found in the great error and incredulity of men, and aversion of the mind erring from and unfaithful to divine religion, the impudence of those who resist the truth were in some way to be borne with; but when he who admires in man, above all other things, this power which it has been granted him to practise, and sorrows because a time is coming when all those figments of gods invented by men shall even be comman …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XCVI
3. “Sing unto the Lord, bless His Name: be telling good tidings of His salvation from day to day” ( ver. 2 ). How doth the building increase? “Be telling,” he saith, “good tidings of His salvation from day to day.” Let it be preached from day to day; from day to day, he saith, let it be built; let My house, saith God, increase. And as if it were said by the workmen, Where dost Thou command it to be built? Where dost Thou will Thy house to increase? Choose for us some level, spacious spot, if Thou wish an ample house built Thee. Where dost Thou bid us be telling good tidings from day to day? He showeth the place: “Declare His honour unto the heathen:” His honour, not yours. O ye builders, “Declare His honour unto the heathen.” Should ye choose to declare your own honour, ye shall fall: if His, ye shall be built up, while ye are building. …