Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
Clementine Vulgate

Psalms 124

1Canticum graduum. [Qui confidunt in Domino, sicut mons Sion: non commovebitur in ternum, qui habitat 2in Jerusalem. Montes in circuitu ejus; et Dominus in circuitu populi sui, ex hoc nunc et usque in sculum. 3Quia non relinquet Dominus virgam peccatorum super sortem justorum: ut non extendant justi ad iniquitatem manus suas, 4benefac, Domine, bonis, et rectis corde. 5Declinantes autem in obligationes, adducet Dominus cum operantibus iniquitatem. Pax super Isral!]

Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain or openly licensed historic text.