Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Thou hast put gladness in my heart. Scarcely has he prayed, (Psalms 4:6), "Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us," than he feels it to be granted. Heartfelt gladness is already his, greater than is the joy of harvest" (Isaiah 9:3).
More than in the time - i:e., 'more than their joy in the time that their grain and their wine increased.' David's joy in the prospect of salvation, on the ground of God's favour abiding with him, is greater than their joy in the present possession of earthly goods without God's favour. The "their" is twice repeated, as if grain and wine were THERE ALL (Luke 16:25, "THY good things;" Hosea 2:5, end). The Lord, on the contrary, is David's chief good, in and from whom he looked for all things (Psalms 16:5; Habakkuk 3:17-18). David doubtless remembers Absalom's former feastings (2 Samuel 13:23-28). and their sad end, as well as the abundance which the revolters have now, as contrasted with his own state, dependent on Ziba and others (2 Samuel 16:1; cf. 2 Samuel 17:27-29). Septuagint, Vulgate, and Syriac add to "their grain and their wine" and their oil. So the Church of England Prayer-book version (cf. Deuteronomy 28:51; Hosea 2:8).