The various blessings which follow them that fear God.
0 A1 Song of degrees.
1 See Psalm 120 in the title.
1BLESSED is every one that feareth the LORD; that walk-eth 2in his ways.
2 That is, in His laws and commandments. See the annotation 1 Kings 11 on verse 33.
23For thou shalt eat 4the labour of thine hands: happy 5shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
3 Or, Surely thou or When thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands.
4 That is, the meat or food which thou shalt have earned and gotten by thine hands and labor according to that which God pronounced to the father of us all, Gen. 3:19.
5 Or, art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
3Thy wife shall be 6as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like 7olive plants round about thy table.
6 This similitude is likewise used in Gen. 49:22; Ezek. 19:10.
7 Which are ever green.
4Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
58The LORD shall bless thee 9out of Zion: and thou shalt see 10the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
8 Or, The LORD bless thee out of Zion: that thou mayest behold, etc.
9 The ark of the covenant was at Zion; there God manifested Himself, and there likewise the people of God met to worship Him.
10 That is, thou shalt live to see the happy and peaceable condition of the church of God, which at that time was chiefly at Jerusalem, where the worship of God was principally celebrated by all manner of offerings and sacrifices. See further the annotation Job 7:7. Hebr. see the good, etc. Also in the next verse. Compare Psalm 37 on verse 3.
6Yea, 11thou shalt see thy children's children, and 12peace 13upon Israel.
11 See the fulfillment of this and other such like promises of God, Job 42:16.
12 That is, blessedness, prosperity.
13 That is, upon the church of God, which at that time consisted of the children of Israel.