Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 128

2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands : happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee .

Thy labour shall not be vain and fruitless, and the fruit of thy labours shall not be taken away from thee and possessed by others, as God threatned to the disobedient, Deut. 28. but enjoyed by thy self with comfort and satisfaction.

Both in this world and in the world to come, as even the Chaldee Paraphrast explains these words.

Marginal references: Isai. 3. 10.

3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house : thy children like oliveplants round about thy table .

Like the vine for fruitfulness: or, like that sort of vines known by this name for its eminent fruitfulness, as some trees amongst us are for the same reason called the great bearers.

Where the vines are commonly planted for support and other advantages. Which being applied to the wife, may signifie either, 1. the wife's duty to abide at home, Tit. 2. 5. as the harlot is deciphered by her gadding abroad, Prov. 7. 11, 12. or rather, 2. the legitimateness of the children, which are begotten at home by the husband, and not abroad by strangers.

Numerous, growing and flourishing, good both for ornament and manifold uses, as Olive-trees are.

Where they shall sit at meat with thee, for thy comfort and safety.

5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion : and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem , all the days of thy life.

From the Ark in Zion, and with those spiritual and everlasting blessings which are to be had no where but in Zion and from the God who dwelleth in Zion, and with all other mercies which thou shalt ask of God in Zion.

The prosperity of that City to which thou belongest, and which is the onely seat of Gods special presence and of his Worship, whose felicity therefore is very delightful to every good man, and upon whose peace the peace and safety of every member of it depends, as every seaman is concerned in the safety of the ship, in which he is.

6 Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children, and peace upon Israel .

Not onely upon Ierusalem and the parts adjacent, but upon all the Tribes and people of Israel.

Marginal references: Psal. 125. 5.