Holy Scripture

Psalms 105:8

A church father on this verse
“"He hath been alway mindful of His covenant" (ver. 8). Other copies read, "for evermore;" and this arises from the ambiguity of the Greek. But if we are to understand "alway" of this world and not of eternity, why, when he explaineth what covenant He was mindful of, doth he add, "The word that He made to a thousand ge…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 105

Source: Septuagint

Original

8Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, That he might cause his mighty power to be known.

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6We have sinned with our fathers, We have transgressed, we have done unrighteously.

7Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders, And remembered not the multitude of thy mercy; But provoked him as they went up by the Red Sea.

— Psalms 105:8 —

9And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: So he led them through the deep as through the wilderness.

10And he saved them out of the hand of them that hated them, And redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy.

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