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Psalms 122:2 — King James Version← Study notes

Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.


Psalms 122:2Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 122:25 words
HebrewMeaning
עֹ֭מְדוֹתʿōmədwōt
standingverbH5975
appoint · arise · cease · confirm ···
הָי֣וּhāyw
they wereverbH1961
altogether · be · accomplished · committed ···
רַגְלֵ֑י/נוּragəlēynw
feet ournounH7272
be able to endure · according as · after · coming ···
בִּ֝/שְׁעָרַ֗יִ/ךְbišəʿārayikə
in gates yourpronH8179
door · gate · port
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽםyərwšālāim
O JerusalemnounH3389
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 122:2

1. As impure love inflames the mind, and summons the soul destined to perish to lust for earthly things, and to follow what is perishable, and precipitates it into lowest places, and sinks it into the abyss; so holy love raises us to heavenly things, and inflames us to what is eternal, and excites the soul to those things which do not pass away nor die, and from the abyss of hell raises it to heaven. Yet all love has a power of its own, nor can love in the soul of the lover…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 122 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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