For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
Ver. 4. For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people] Psalms 35:27, when they are under the cross especially, and thereby make meek. This the very heathen saw, and could say, Spectant Dii magnos viros, cum calamitate aliqua colluctantes. Ecce spectaculum, ad quod respiciat operi suo intentus Deus, saith Seneca of Cato, and other gallant Roman spirits (Lib. de Provid. c. 2). How much more may we say the like of God's looking with singular delight on Abraham (Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord seeth," Genesis 22:14, Job, Stephen, Laurence, and other faithful martyrs, suffering courageously for his truth, and sealing it with their blood!
He will beautify (or glorify) the meek with salvation] i.e. Not only deliver them, but dignify them in the eyes of all; Psalms 91:15, I will deliver him, and glorify him. Bradford and such we shall look upon, likely (saith a grave author, Mr Bolton), with thoughts of extraordinary love and sweetness in the next world through all eternity; as Bonner and such with execrable and everlasting detestation.