George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 128:5
Back. By a sincere conversion. (Calmet) --- God will cover the presumptuous with eternal confusion, so that none shall bless them, ver. 8. (Worthington)
Back. By a sincere conversion. (Calmet) --- God will cover the presumptuous with eternal confusion, so that none shall bless them, ver. 8. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 128:5. _THE LORD SHALL BLESS THEE OUT OF ZION_] In all thy approaches to him in his house by prayer, by sacrifice, and by offering, thou shalt have his especial blessing. Thou shalt thriv...
THE LORD SHALL BLESS THEE OUT OF ZION - Will not merely bless thee in the field and in the house, but will add blessings that seem to come more directly out of Zion, or that seem to be more directly c...
PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...
CXXVIII. THE BLESSING OF A PIOUS HOME. Psalms 128:2_ a. i.e._ without being robbed by the oppressor. This shows how low peasant life in Israel has sunk. Psalms 128:3. Observe the seclusion of women....
AND THOU SHALT SEE: or, That thou mayest see....
PSALMS 128 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Happy Home and a Prosperous Commonwealth. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 128:1-3, The Happy Home Described. Stanza II., Psalms 128:4-6, The Interest of the Commonwealth
The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. THE LORD SHALL BLESS THEE OUT OF ZION - His seat, whence, out of His 'sanctuary' there, He...
The man who fears God will be blessed in his family life. The Ps. has been called the 'Home, Sweet Home 'of Judaism....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 128 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi
SHALL... SHALT. — Here and in the next verse the optative is plainly required: “May Jehovah,” &c; “mayst thou see,” &c. The patriotic sentiment could not wait long for expression in such a psalm. No p...
יְבָרֶכְךָ֥ יְהוָ֗ה מִ צִּ֫יֹּ֥ון וּ֭ רְאֵה ב
Psalms 128:1 THE preceding psalm traced all prosperity and domestic felicity to God's giving hand. It painted in its close the picture of a father surrounded by his sons able to defend him. This psalm...
“IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THEE” Psalms 128:1-6 This psalm is the portrait of a godly man and his home in the best days of the Hebrew commonwealth. _The husband and father_, Psalms 128:1-2. He is rev...
This song naturally follows the one in which Jehovah's relation to the home, as building and establishing it, is recognised. It is chiefly interesting as it reveals the singer's conception of the rela...
The LORD shall (d) bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of (e) Jerusalem all the days of thy life. (d) Because of the spiritual blessing which God has made to his Church, these tempora...
5._Jehovah shall bless thee from Zion. _Some, would have this sentence to be a prayer, and therefore they resolve the future tense into the optative mood. But it seems rather to be a continued stateme...
A numerous progeny are distinctly God's gift: happy the man that has his quiver full of them (Psalms 128). The blessings spoken of are declared to be the portion of whoever fears Jehovah. It is presen...
THE LORD SHALL BLESS THEE OUT OF ZION,.... The church of God, where he dwells, out of which he shines, even the Word of the Lord, as the Targum in the king's Bible; and where he commands his blessings...
The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. Ver. 5. _The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion_] viz. With spiritual benedictions, Ephesians...
_The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion_ Where the ark of the covenant was, and where the pious Israelites attended to offer their devotions. He will bless thee with those spiritual and everlasting ble...
THE HAPPINESS OF THE PIOUS. A song of degrees, setting forth the temporal blessings of true piety. Cf Zechariah 8....
The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion, the throne of His gracious presence in the midst of His people, just as He now lives in the midst of His congregation, in His Word and Sacraments; AND THOU SHALT...
OUT OF ZION; 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...
Psalms 128:5 LORD H3068 bless H1288 (H8762) Zion H6726 see H7200 (H8798) good H2898 Jerusalem H3389 days...
CONTENTS: The prosperity of those who live in the fear of God and in obedience to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Israel. CONCLUSION: Those who are truly holy are truly happy. Those may be assured of a prospe...
REFLECTIONS. We have here another family psalm. It compresses all the blessings of the Hebrew covenant into a short compass. (1) We have the character: he fears the Lord. He is in every view a trul...
_The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion._ BLESSING OUT OF ZION 1. What measure soever of things temporal the Lord shall give to the man that feareth Him, He reserveth unto him all the promises of rig...
_Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord._ THE BLESSED TENDENCY OF TRUE PIETY The subject is the blessed tendency of true piety, and the truly pious man is described as one that “feareth the Lord...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 128:1. This wisdom psalm expands some of the topics in Psalms 127:1....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 128:5 MAY YOU SEE YOUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN. This includes living to be old enough to see one’s grandchildren and the delight they give (Proverbs
INTRODUCTION This, like 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...
EXPOSITION IT is not quite easy to see why this psalm occurs among the "Songs of Ascents." The sentiment of it is that true religion never loses its reward; or, in other words, that whoever fears God...
Continuing to deal with the family and all, the next psalm. Blessed is every one that feareth [or reverences] the LORD; and walks in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labor of your hands: happy shalt...
Ephesians 1:3; Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 33:20; Psalms 118:26; Psalms 134:3;