PSALTERIVM

PSALMVS CXXIV — QVI CONFIDVNT

They That Trust in the Lord

Qui confidunt in Domino is a Gradual Psalm comparing those who trust in God to Mount Sion, which cannot be moved. The surrounding mountains image divine protection. In the 1962 Breviary it appears at Vespers on Tuesdays. The promise that 'the rod of sinners shall not rest upon the lot of the just' consoles the persecuted.

LATINE
Qui confidunt in Domino, sicut mons Sion: non commovebitur in aeternum, qui habitat in Ierusalem.
Montes in circuitu eius: et Dominus in circuitu populi sui, ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum.
Quia non relinquet Dominus virgam peccatorum super sortem iustorum: ut non extendant iusti ad iniquitatem manus suas.
Benefac, Domine, bonis, et rectis corde.
Declinantes autem in obligationes, adducet Dominus cum operantibus iniquitatem: pax super Israel.
ENGLISH
They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth in Jerusalem.
Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.
For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.
Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart.
But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.
NOTA
FONS
Douay-Rheims (1609) / Vulgata
USUS
Trust in God, Little Hours
CONTEXT
Psalm 125 in Hebrew numbering. Sixth Song of Ascents. The mountain imagery reflects Jerusalem's actual geography.