“What is this Jerusalem? He briefly describes it. "The mountains stand around Jerusalem" [Psalm 125:2]. Is it anything great, that we are in a city surrounded by mountains? Is this the whole of our happiness, that we shall have a city which mountains surround? Do we not know what mountains are? or what are mountains sa…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 125
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2As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
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1They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
— Psalms 125:2 —
3For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
4Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.