What does Psalms Chapter 111 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The return inscription and its Greek/Latin versus Hebrew note stay distinct. Lending, ordered words, hope and distribution are described without invented financial terms. Future honor and wicked anger remain future declarations.

Chapter breakdown

Beatus vir is the incipit and the heading says the good man is happy. Alleluia of Aggeus and Zacharias' returning precedes a note identifying Greek/Latin presence and Hebrew absence. It explains fitness for return-from-captivity singing and happiness if constant in service, not an observed performance or certain authorship.

The God-fearing man is blessed and shall delight in commandments. Seed shall be mighty and righteous generation blessed; glory and wealth shall be in house and justice remains forever. Light has risen in darkness to righteous, with mercy, compassion and justice. The acceptable mercy-giving lender shall order words with judgment, not specified public commercial transactions; he shall not be moved forever.

The just shall be eternally remembered and not fear evil hearing, heart ready to hope, strengthened and unmoved until looking over enemies. He has distributed and given poor people, justice remains and horn shall rise in glory. Wicked shall see, anger, gnash teeth and pine, desire perishing. Future anger and honor are not accomplished resentment or scientifically established generosity-to-resilience causality. Neither all descendants' prosperity nor immunity from every calamity is independently certified.

The story inside

Opening: The return inscription and its Greek/Latin versus Hebrew note stay distinct. Development: Lending, ordered words, hope and distribution are described without invented financial terms. Conclusion: Future honor and wicked anger remain future declarations.

Lessons worth keeping

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The return inscription and its Greek/Latin versus Hebrew note stay distinct.
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Lending, ordered words, hope and distribution are described without invented financial terms.
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Future honor and wicked anger remain future declarations.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 65001–65007
Alleluia, of the returning of Aggeus and Zacharias. Of the returning, etc.... This is in the Greek and Latin, but not in the Hebrew. It signifies that this psalm was proper to be sung at the time of the return of the people from their captivity; to inculcate to them, how happy they might be, if they would be constant in the service of God.
Lines 65009–65016
111:1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments. 111:2. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed. 111:3. Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever.
Lines 65032–65036
111:9. He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory. 111:10. The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.