Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 84:11

11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield : the LORD will give grace and glory : no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly .

To enlighten and quicken and direct and comfort all his people; whereas they that live without God in the world Walk in darkness, and know not whither they go, as is said, Iohn 12. 35.

To save his People from all their Enemies, and from those dreadful and deadly miseries which attend all other men.

His favour and friendship, which is better than life, Psal. 63. 3. and all the blessed fruits of it.

Not the Vain-glory and Splendour of this World, of which David would not have spoken so magnificently, because upon all occasions he expresseth a great contempt of those things, but the honour which comes from God here, and that eternal and ineffable Glory lay'd up for God's People in the future world.

Nothing that is truly good in it self, and which is good for them: for sometimes afflictions, which are evil in themselves, are good and necessary, and highly advantageous to good men; and the good things of this world would do them much hurt: which is verified by frequent experiments.

That worship God sincerely, and order their conversations aright. Which Clause David seems, to me, to add designedly to prevent or remove an objection against what he had now said, which might be taken from his own case, whereby it appeared that God was no such sun or shield to him, but exposed him to great and sore calamities. Which being certain and evident, David here assigns the true reason of it, which was not from any defect in God's goodness and sufficiency, but onely from his own gross miscarriages whereby he had clouded this sun, and cast away this shield, and forfeited these priviledges by departing from his integrity.

Marginal references: Gen. 15. 1. Psal. 119. 114.; Psal. 34. 9, 10.