Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Ver. 6. Surely goodness and mercy, &c.] Utique bonitas et beneficentia, or, as Tremellius hath it, Nihil nisi bonum et benignitas, Nothing but goodness and lovingkindness, &c. This is his good assurance of God's favour for the future, grounded upon God's promise; whereby he was well assured that mercy should follow him, though he should be so foolish as to run from it; like as the sun, going down, followeth the passenger that goeth eastward, with his beams.
And I will dwell, &c.] Devoted to his fear, I will stick to him in life, in death, and after death. Apprehensions of mercy in God must work resolutions of obedience in us.