The Book of Psalms

Psalm 128

Psalm CXXVIII · Vol. II, p. 1071

The sundry blessings which follow them that fear God.

Margin referencesNotes ↓

^aA song of degrees.

1 Blessed ^bis every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

B.C. cir. 1015.

a Ps.cxx.-cxxxiv. titles.

b Ps.112.1; 115.13; 119.1; 1.1-3. Ac.10.35. Job 1.1,8.

2 For^c thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: ^dhappy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

c Ge.3.19. Is.65.21-23; 62.8.

d Is.3.10. Ps.19.11. Ro.2.7,10. 1 Co.15.58.

3 Thy^e wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house; ^gthy children like olive plants round about thy table.

e Eze.19.10. Pr.5.15,16. Ps.52.8. Je.11.16. Ho.14.6,7.

4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

5 The^h LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see ⁱthe good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

A.M. cir. 2989. B.C. cir. 1015.

h Ps.133.3; 134.3; 20.2; 118.26. Is.2.3.

i Ps.122.6,7. Is.33.20; 54.13.

6 Yea, ^jthou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

j Ge.50.23. Job 42.16. Pr.17.6. Ps.125.5. Ga.6.16. Is.66.12; 59.21.

Notes

Ver. 2. To many nothing appears more irksome or more degrading than labour. In the view of God it is blessed; and gratefully to enjoy the produce of a man's toil, is declared to be a special mark of the divine goodness. C.

Ver. 5. Thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem. The believer always sees the good, even of the natural Jerusalem; he sees it in her present converts to Jesus, and her future restoration. Of the spiritual Jerusalem, the good is visible to sense, as well as to faith. C.

Reflections.—How excellent and profitable is real and experimental godliness, issuing in a holy practice! It draws the blessing of God upon our labours, our families, on the church of God, and on our posterity.