“ Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel. ”
Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children - This is a continuation of the idea of blessedness as connected with a numerous posterity - an object of so much interest to the Hebrews (see the note...
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...
thou shalt see. Hezekiah did see. peace. Because this Psalm concludes. group.
Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children - Thou shall not die till thou have seen thy family all settled in the world, and tho...
Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children - like Job ( Job 42:16 ) and Joseph ( Genesis 50:23 .) Cf Zechariah 8:4 . On t...
The man who fears God will be blessed in his family life. The Ps. has been called the 'Home, Sweet Home 'of Judaism.
Children’s children. — Dr. Perowne illustrates from Virgil: “adspicies ... natos natorum et qui nascentur ab illis.” (Comp. Zechariah 8:4-5 .) And peace... — The conjunction spoils the passag...
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...
REFLECTIONS READER! do not hastily pass by the blessed view of Jesus as the Bridegroom and Husband of his Church; for sonic of the sweetest Views of happiness, even eternal happiness, are to be foun...
Yea, thou shall see thy children's children ,.... A numerous race of descendants from him, which are the crown and glory of old men, Proverbs 17:6 ; this is also true of Christ's spiritual childre...
Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, [and] peace upon Israel. Ver. 6. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children] A faithfid man shall abound with blessings, Proverbs 28:20 , he shall hav...
The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion Where the ark of the covenant was, and where the pious Israelites attended to offer their devotions. He will bless thee with those spiritual and everlasting bl...
Blessedness of the Godly. A song of degrees. 1 Blessed is every one that feareth the L ORD ; that walketh in his w...
Not only upon Jerusalem, and the parts adjacent, but upon all the tribes and people of Israel.
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...
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...
The Happiness of the Pious. A song of degrees, setting forth the temporal blessings of true piety. Cf Zechariah 8.
Galatians 1:16 ; Genesis 50:23 ; Isaiah 66:12 ; Job 42:16 ; Psalms 125:5