This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
This I had, because I kept thy precepts - "this" good I have had as my reward (namely, that thy statutes are "my songs in my pilgrimage," and that "I remember thy name" as my comfort "in the night") "because I have (so ardently) kept thy precepts." The Rabbis say, The reward of the precept is the precept; and the precept draws on the precept. Whosoever keeps one precept is gratuitously rewarded by God with grace to keep another and a harder one. Just as, on the contrary, sin is the penalty of sin; and one sin draws on another (Muis) (Psalms 19:11). Hengstenberg translates, 'This I have (and in it the hope of salvation, Deuteronomy 6:25), that I keep thy precepts.'