Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yea], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.
Ver. 15. Happy is that people] That hath such a confluence of outward comforts. In Hezekiah's days only it was so, say the Rabbis, peace, plenty, and posterity. The Syriac rendereth it questionwise: Is not the people happy that is in such a case? No, not except they have God to boot; as, if they have, they are happy howsoever, Deuteronomy 33:29 : ut vita carnis anima est, ita beatitudo hominis Deus, saith Austin.