“ Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. ”
Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord - That honors God; that is truly pious. See the notes at Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 112:1 . What that blessedness is, is indicated in the following verses....
"A Song of degrees." Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his (a) ways. (a) God approves not our life, unless it is reformed according to his word.
CXXVIII. The Blessing of a Pious Home. Psalms 128:2 a. i.e. without being robbed by the oppressor. This shows how low peasant life in Israel has sunk. Psalms 128:3 . Observe the seclusion...
Title.. Song of degrees. Same as 120. See App-67. Blessed is . O the happinesses of. See the Beatitudes. App-63. feareth . revereth.
1 Blessed is the man who feareth Jehovah. In the preceding Psalm it was stated that prosperity in all human affairs, and in the whole course of our life, is to be hoped for exclusively from...
A Song of degrees. Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
The sundry blessings which follow them that fear God. A Song of Degrees. Title. המעלות שׁיר Shiir hammangaloth. ] This psalm is thought to have been written by the author of the preceding on...
Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. Psalms 128:1-6 .-The fear of God brings blessedness. Israel, returned from Babylon, and suffering through the Samaritan f...
The man who fears God will be blessed in his family life. The Ps. has been called the 'Home, Sweet Home 'of Judaism.
Psalms 128:1-6 THE preceding psalm traced all prosperity and domestic felicity to God's giving hand. It painted in its close the picture of a father surrounded by his sons able to defend him. This...
“It Shall Be Well with Thee” Psalms 128:1-6 This psalm is the portrait of a godly man and his home in the best days of the Hebrew commonwealth. The husband and father , Psalms 128:1-2 . He is...
This song naturally follows the one in which Jehovah's relation to the home, as building and establishing it, is recognised. It is chiefly interesting as it reveals the singer's conception of the rel...
CONTENTS Here is a happy state described, full of blessings. Blessings in the man himself: blessings in the wife of his bosom; blessings in his offspring; and all out of Zion, from the Lord. A Song...
Blessed [is] everyone that feareth the Lord ,.... Be he who he will; of whatsoever nation, Jew or Gentile; of whatsoever sex, age, or condition, high or low, rich or poor, Acts 10:35 ; such an one...
Psalms 128:1 «A Song of degrees. » Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. Ver. 1. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord ] This psalm is fitly subjoined to t...
Blessedness of the Godly. A song of degrees. 1 Blessed is every one that feareth the L ORD ; that walketh in his w...
PSALM 128 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm contains a description of the blessedness of good men. The psalmist showeth the happy state of such as fear God, in his labour, Psalms 128:1,2 , wife, and child...
INTRODUCTION This, like the former, is a Psalm for families. In that, we were taught that the prosperity of our families depends upon the blessing of God: in this, we are taught that the only way to...
A Song of degrees Literally, "of ascents." Perhaps chanted by the people as they went up to Jerusalem to the feasts. See, for example ( Psalms 112:1 ); ( Psalms 112:2 ).
REFLECTIONS. We have here another family psalm. It compresses all the blessings of the Hebrew covenant into a short compass. (1) We have the character: he fears the Lord. He is in every view a...
Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord. The blessed tendency of true piety The subject is the blessed tendency of true piety, and the truly pious man is described as one that “feareth the L...
EXPOSITION IT is not quite easy to see why this psalm occurs among the "Songs of Ascents." The sentiment of it is that true religion never loses its reward; or, in other words, that whoever fe...
Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord, his entire life being arranged in conformity with God's holy will, in childlike reverence; that walketh in His ways, his entire behavior agreeing with the...
1 Thessalonians 4:1 ; Acts 9:31 ; Luke 1:50 ; Luke 1:6 ; Psalms 1:1-3 ; Psalms 119:1 ; Psalms 81:13 ; Psalms 103:1 ; Psalms 103:13 ; Psalms 103:17 ; Psalms 112:1 ; Psalms 115:13 ; Psalms...