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A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways. See also: Psalms 112:1 Psalms 119:1 Psalms 103:13For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you. See also: Isaiah 3:10 Isaiah 62:8 Isaiah 65:21-23Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table. See also: Ezekiel 19:10 Psalms 52:8 Proverbs 5:15-18Behold, this is how the man who fears the LORD is blessed. May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. See also: Psalms 134:3 Psalms 20:2 Isaiah 33:20Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel. See also: Job 42:16 Genesis 50:23 Isaiah 66:12

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)5 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 127

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Introduction to the chapter

PSALM CXXVII. (BEATI OMNES.)

The fear of God is the way to happiness.

Psalms 127:1

Ver. 1. Canticle. Being a sequel to the former, (C.) and similar to the 111th, as both promise felicity to the captives at their return, if they prove faithful, 2 Esd.

ix. 38. Ferrand. --- It is a sort of epithalamium. Moller. --- Both temporal and spiritual blessings are set before us. Bert. ---

Ways. Many saints have not received temporal rewards; and this confirms our faith that there is a world to come. C. --- In effect, no temporal advantages are here specified, as they are below.

Bert.

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Psalms 127:2

Ver. 2. Hands. The idle are not entitled to blessings, which God will bestow on the industrious who fear him, preserving them from evils. Lev. xxvi. 16. and Deut. xxviii. 30. C. 2 Cor. iii. 10.

--- Some have explained karpon, "fruits:" though it here means hands. Bert.

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Psalms 127:3

Ver. 3. Sides. Against which vines were planted. C. --- The married people who fear God, shall commonly have a numerous posterity; or their souls shall produce many good works in the Church, which springs from our Saviour's side. Children denote such good works. W. --- Plants.

Ps. cxliii. 12. Hom. Odys. vi. 163.

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Psalms 127:5

Ver. 5. Sion. Where he displayed his bounty. C. --- Jerusalem. In heaven. 1 Cor.

xv. 19. Bert.

--- Mayst thou live happily in the holy city, after thy long captivity. C.

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Psalms 127:6

Ver. 6. Israel. This is best secured by a well-regulated and numerous people.

Bert. --- The good works, performed on earth, will be rewarded in heaven. W. ---

We shall rejoice in the spiritual children, whom we shall have begotten. M.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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