Chapter 128

Blessed is everyone that feareth the LORD. A person will eat the fruit of their work, and their wife will be like a fruitful vine, and their children like olive shoots around their table. May you see Jerusalem prosper.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

This, as the former, is a psalm for families. In that we were taught that the prosperity of our families depends upon the blessing of God; in this we are taught that the only way to obtain that blessing which will make our families comfortable is to live in the fear of God and in obedience to him. Those that do so, in general, shall be blessed (Ps. 128:1, 2, 4), In particular, I. They shall be pro…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

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Psa 128:1-6. The temporal blessings of true piety. The eighth chapter of Zecariah is a virtual commentary on this Psalm. Compare Psa 128:3 with Zec 8:5; and Psa 128:2 with Le 26:16; De 28:33; Zec 8:10; and Psa 128:6 with Zec 8:4. 1. (Compare Psa 1:1).