Psalms 99:4
Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise ye his name:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Introite portas ejus in confessione ; atria ejus in hymnis : confitemini illi. Laudate nomen ejus,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰσέλθατε εἰς τὰς πύλας αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐξομολογήσει, τὰς αὐλὰς αὐτοῦ ἐν ὕμνοις· ἐξομολογεῖσθε αὐτῷ, αἰνεῖτε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 100:4
- בֹּ֤אוּ שְׁעָרָ֨יו בְּתוֹדָ֗ה חֲצֵרֹתָ֥יו בִּתְהִלָּ֑ה הֽוֹדוּ ל֝֗וֹ בָּרֲכ֥וּ שְׁמֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm C
13. “For the Lord is pleasant” ( ver. 4 ). Think not that ye faint in praising Him. Your praise of Him is like food: the more ye praise Him, the more ye acquire strength, and He whom ye praise becometh the more sweet. “His mercy is everlasting.” For He will not cease to be merciful, after He hath freed thee: it belongeth to His mercy to protect thee even unto eternal life. “His mercy,” therefore, “is to everlasting: and His truth from generation to generation” ( ver. 5 ). Understand by “from generation to generation,” either every generation, or in two generations, the one earthly, the other heavenly. Here there is one generation which produceth mortals; another which maketh such as are everlasting. His Truth is both here, and there. …