Passage Research
Psalm 125 — Sermon Preparation
A Song of Ascents of confident trust, comparing those who rely on the LORD to Mount Zion — unshakable, surrounded as Jerusalem is by mountains. Below is a research summary for Psalm 125, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
- 49 / 38
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 125 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צַדִּיק | tsaddîyq | H6662 | 2 | just |
| סָבִיב | çâbîyb | H5439 | 2 | circle, neighbour |
| עוֹלָם | ʻôwlâm | H5769 | 2 | concealed, vanishing |
| הַר | har | H2022 | 2 | mountain, range |
| טוֹב | ṭôwb | H2895 | 2 | good |
| עֲקַלְקַל | ʻăqalqal | H6128 | 1 | winding |
| לִבָּה | libbâh | H3826 | 1 | heart |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 125, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This short psalm may be summed up in those words of the prophet (Isa. iii. 10, 11), "Say you to the righteous, It shall be well with him. Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him." Thus are life and death, the blessing and the curse, set before us often in the psalms, as well as in the law and the prophets. I. It is certainly well with the people of God; for, 1. They have the promises of a good God that they shall be fixed (ver. 1), and safe (ver. 2), and not always under the hatches, ver. 3. 2. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 125:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— Ps 125:1
- Mount Zion— Ps 125:1
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