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.
Surely goodness, х 'ak (H389)] - rather, 'only;' i:e., nothing but goodness.
Shall follow me. As my enemies, like wild beasts, follow me with evil intent, so God follows me with good. Ordinarily men follow after happiness, which still flees from them; here blessedness of itself follows believers. 'Such is the ardour of divine grace, that it eagerly, follows us, even when careless, nay, averse' (Gejer).
All the days of my life - the days of this transitory life, in contrast to the life "forever," wherein I shall not be, as here, a traveling pilgrim (followed, indeed, by 'the goodness, of God'), but a 'dweller in the house of the Lord.'