For thou. — The Hebrew by the position of the particle is more emphatic:
“For it is the labour of thine hands thou shalt eat.”
(See Note, Psalms 116:10.) This picture of a successful and peaceful husbandry, which itself throws a whole flood of light on the condition of Palestine and of the people, now not nomadic but agricultural, is rendered still more emphatic by references to the numerous passages where it is foretold that enemies would devour the harvests (Deuteronomy 28:30-33; Leviticus 26:16).
Happy. — The same word translated blessed in Psalms 128:1.