Psalms 122:5 — Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 122:58 words

HebrewMeaning

כִּ֤יkiy

forconjH3588

+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···

שָׁ֨מָּ/הšāmāh

thereadvH8033

thence · there (-in · of · out) ···

יָשְׁב֣וּyāšəbw

they satverbH3427

continue · (cause to · make to) dwell · ease self ···

כִסְא֣וֹתkisəʾwōt

thronesnounH3678

stool · throne

לְ/מִשְׁפָּ֑טləmišəpāṭ

for judgmentpronH4941

adversary · charge · crime · custom ···

כִּ֝סְא֗וֹתkisəʾwōt

thronesnounH3678

stool · throne

לְ/בֵ֣יתləbēyt

of the house ofpronH1004

daughter · door · dungeon · family ···

דָּוִֽידdāwiyd

DavidnounH1732

ℹWords 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 122:5

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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