Day 6 of 15
Psalms 125
Those who trust in the LORD are like unshakable Mount Zion, surrounded by the LORD as the mountains surround Jerusalem, and the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the righteous.
A Song of Ascents, a psalm of confidence drawn from Jerusalem's encircling mountains.
“1. This Psalm, belonging to the number of the Songs of Degrees, teaches us, while we ascend and raise our minds unto the Lord our God in loving charity and piety, not to fix our gaze upon men who are prosperous in this world, with a happiness that is false and unstable, and altogether seductive; where they cherish nothing save pride, and their heart freezes up against God, and is made hard against the shower of His…”
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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