Wol dem der yn Gottes furcht steht
Introduction to the Psalm
The chapter introduces a metrical setting of Psalm 127, intended to be sung to a melody by Jan Hus.
Several psalms follow here, beginning with this one: 127. A psalm: “Blessed are all who fear the Lord,” sung to the melody of the preceding hymn by Jan Hus.
The Blessings of the God-Fearing
This section outlines the domestic, spiritual, and communal blessings promised to those who live in the fear of God.
Blessed are those who fear God and walk in his ways. Your own hands will provide your food; you’ll live rightly and prosper. Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine in your home, and your children like healthy, flourishing olive plants around your table. Look at the rich blessings that come to the person who lives in the fear of God. The ancient curse and wrath that every human child is born into depart from him.1 God will bless you from Zion, so that you will always see the well-being of the city of Jerusalem, which is pleasing to God and held in his grace. He will preserve your life and always remain with you in goodness. Then you'll see your children's children, and Israel will find peace.
Read the original Latin
<big>Hyr nach folgen etzliche psalmen /</big> vnd zum ersten der. cxxvij. Psalm / Beati omnes qui timent dominum / ynn Melodey so man synget das voryge lied S. Johannis Huss.
Wol dem der yn Gottes furcht steht / vnnd der auff seynem wege geht / Deyn eygen handt dich neren soll / so lebstu recht vnd geht dir wol.
Deyn weyb wird yn deym hause seyn / wie eyn reben vol drauben fein / Vnnd deyn kynder vmb deynen tisch / wie ölpflantzen gesund vnd frisch.
Sich / so reich segen hängt dem an / wo yn gottes furcht lebt eyn man. Von ym lesst der alt fluch vnd zorn / den menschen kindern angeborn
Aus Zion wirt Got segen dich / das du wirst schawen stetiglich. Das gluck der stadt Jerusalem / fur Gott yn gnaden angenem.
Fristen wirt er das leben deinn / vnnd mitt gutte stets bey dir seyn. Das du sehen wirst kyndes kint / vnd das Israel fryde fynd.
Notes
- 1 ↩The compact phrase describes the curse and wrath as innate to humanity; the English makes this inherited condition explicit without specifying a later doctrinal formulation.
Erfurt Enchiridion (Early Lutheran Hymns) companion
Never lose the rhythm again
Chosen Portion delivers your morning, midday and night office to your phone — the Hours, without the bells.
Chosen Portion is a modern Book of Hours: it turns the fixed-hour structure this collection preserves into scheduled, tappable daily prayer on your phone.
- Three daily prayer moments scheduled around your real calendar, not a monastery's
- Psalms and historic prayers sequenced for you — no page-flipping or decision fatigue
- A visible streak of completed offices, so the rhythm compounds instead of collapsing