Psalms 95:9
Adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved at his presence.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- adorate Dominum in atrio sancto ejus. Commoveatur a facie ejus universa terra ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- προσκυνήσατε τῷ κυρίῳ ἐν αὐλῇ ἁγίᾳ αὐτοῦ· σαλευθήτω ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 96:9
- הִשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּ לַ֭יהוָה בְּהַדְרַת קֹ֑דֶשׁ חִ֥ילוּ מִ֝פָּנָ֗יו כָּל הָאָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
Moved. Hebrew, "in labour," (Isaias xxvi. 17.; Theodoret; Calmet) or "fear ye before him all the earth." (Houbigant)
In Paralipomenon, the sentences are in a different order. (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 Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna On the Day that They Met in the Temple
IV. Therefore the prophet brought the virgin from Nazareth, in order that she might give birth at Bethlehem to her salvation-bestowing child, and brought her back again to Nazareth, in order to make manifest to the world the hope of life. Hence it was that the ark of God removed from the inn at Bethlehem, for there He paid to the law that debt of the forty days, due not to justice but to grace, and rested upon the mountains of Sion, and receiving into His pure bosom as upon a lofty throne, and one transcending the nature of man, the Monarch of all, she presented Him there to God the Father, as the joint-partner of His throne and inseparable from His nature, together with that pure and undefiled flesh which he had of her substance assumed. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XCVI
10. “O worship the Lord in His holy court” ( ver. 9 ): in the Catholic Church; this is His holy court. Let no man say, “Lo, here is Christ, or there. For there shall arise false prophets.” Say this unto them, “There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Ye are calling me to the whited wall; I adore my God in His holy court. “Let the whole earth be moved before His face.”