Psalms 128:4

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

man. a strong man (plural) Hebrew. geber. App-14.

blessed. Not the same word as in Psalms 128:1. That is happy (Beatitudo); this is blessed (Benedictio).

Related Commentaries of Psalms 128:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed ... - As if he had said, “Look upon this picture. See the farmer cultivating his fields; see him gathe...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 h...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. Lo! surely, thus blessed shall be the man who feareth Jehovah. The preceding doctrine, that even in the outward condition of God’s servan...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. Thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord - A great price for a small con...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. "Behold"...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The man who fears God will be blessed in his family life. The Ps. has been called the 'Home, Sweet Home 'of Judaism.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Behold, that. — Better, Look! for thus, &c. The poet calls attention to the charming picture he has drawn of domestic bliss and then points h...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 fath...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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....
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This song naturally follows the one in which Jehovah's relation to the home, as building and establishing it, is recognised. It is chiefly interestin...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. In the manner before described, and in the instances already given, as well as in...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. Ver. 4. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed, &c. ] "Behold," and "tha...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Blessedness of the Godly. A song of degrees. 1 Blessed is every...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 o...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS. We have here another family psalm. It compresses all the blessings of the Hebrew covenant into a short compass. (1) We have the c...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine. A pattern wife There are trailing slatterns, like brambles and nettles, who leave conspicuous in a dwelli...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 los...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Happiness of the Pious. A song of degrees, setting forth the temporal blessings of true piety. Cf Zechariah 8.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Behold that thus shall the man be blessed, with the rich blessings of God's kindness, that feareth the Lord, whose faith works in him the true reve...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 5:24 ; Proverbs 1:7 ; Psalms 111:10 ; Psalms 112:2

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

Related Commentaries of Psalms 128:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 128:4