Psalms 99:5
For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quoniam suavis est Dominus, in æternum misericordia ejus, et usque in generationem et generationem veritas ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι χρηστὸς Κύριος, εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἕως γενεᾶς καὶ γενεᾶς ἡ ἀλήθεια αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 100:5
- כִּי ט֣וֹב יְ֭הֹוָה לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּ֑וֹ וְעַד דֹּ֥ר וָ֝דֹ֗ר אֱמוּנָתֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Truth. This is commonly joined with mercy. (Calmet)
God faithfully executes what he has promised (Worthington) for the liberation of his people, and the conversion of the Gentiles. (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 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. …