Psalms 122:7 — King James Version← Study notes
“Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.”
Psalms 122:7 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Psalms 122:75 words
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 122:7
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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