Henry Ainsworth on Psalms 128

PSAL. CXXVIII.

A Song of degrees.

O Happy is every one that feareth Iehovah, that walketh in his wayes. When thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands, O happy thou, and good shall it be unto thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitfull Vine by the sides of thine house, thy sonnes as Olive plants round about thy Table. Lo[illegible: 1 letter] surely thus shall the man be blessed that feareth Iehovah. Blesse thee will Iehovah out of Sion, and see thou the good of Ierusalem, all the dayes of thy life. And see thou thy sonnes sonnes, peace upon Israel.

Annotations. O Happy] or Blessed: as Psal. 1. 1. Vers. 2. When thou] or, For (surely) thou shalt eat. the labour] that is, things got with labour, according to the Law, Gen. 3. 19. and this is of Gods hand, Eccle. 2. 24. the contrary whereof is a curse, Deut. 28. 30, 31, 33. good] profitable, and pleasing, as Deut. 23. 16. The Chaldee explaineth it, Happy thou in this world, and good (shall it be) unto thee in the world to come. Vers. 3. fruitfull] or, fructifying: see also this similitude, Ezek. 19. 10. Gen. 49. 22. Olive plants] alwayes greene, Psal. 52. 10. and legitimate, as the Olive admitteth no other graffe. Vers. 5. will Iehovah] or, prayer-wise (as the Greeke hath it) Iehovah blesse thee. see thou] or, thou shalt see, that is, enjoy: looke the Notes on Psal. 27. 4. and 37. 3. the good] that is, the good things, as the Greeke hath it: see Psal. 65. 5. Vers. 6. thy sonnes sonnes] or, sonnes to (or of) thy sonnes. See this fulfilled in Iob 42. 16. where Iob saw his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, even foure generations.