For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield.
Ver. 12. For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous] Yea, the righteous man shall abound with blessings, Proverbs 28:20; yea, God will bless all them that bless him, Genesis 12:3, or that but give him a cup of cold water, Matthew 10:42
With favour] Or, goodwill; Quae praecedit nostram bonam voluntatem, saith Augustine.
Wilt thou compass him] Or, encircle him as with a crown, and so make them "higher than the kings of the earth," Psalms 89:27, whose crowns cannot keep their heads from aching, but fill them with cares; which made one king cry out, O vilis pannus, &c. (Val. Max.), and another spake this of his crown,
Nobilis es fateor, rutilisque onerata lapillis,
Innumeris curis sed comitata venis.
Quod bene si nossent omnes expendere, nemo
Nemo foret qui te tollere vellet humo.
As with a shield ] A piked shield, such as doth circuire tres partes hominis, compass about three parts of a man, saith R. Solomon on this text. Shields and bucklers, besides other bosses for ornament, had one great boss in the middle with a sharp pike in it for use, to pierce and wound the adversary. See Job 15:26. God will be all in all to his people, crown, shield, &c.: they may therefore well enough rejoice, shout, leap, as in the former verse.