Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Psalms 128:3
wife... fruitful. The reference is, as in Psalms 127 to the fact that Hezekiah was childless at this time and ionged for an heir. App-67.
children. sons.
wife... fruitful. The reference is, as in Psalms 127 to the fact that Hezekiah was childless at this time and ionged for an heir. App-67.
children. sons.
THY WIFE SHALL BE AS A FRUITFUL VINE BY THE SIDES OF THINE HOUSE - It is not uncommon in the East, as elsewhere, to train a vine along the sides of a house - partly to save ground; partly because it i...
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....
THY WIFE SHALL BE, &C.— The author of the Observations remarks, that it does not appear from the accounts of any traveller, that it was ever the custom of the Jews to conduct vines along the sides of...
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
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. THY WIFE (SHALL BE) AS A FRUITFUL VINE BY THE SIDES OF THINE HOUSE - or 'in t...
128:3 house; (i-15) Or 'by the sides of thy house.'...
The man who fears God will be blessed in his family life. The Ps. has been called the 'Home, Sweet Home 'of Judaism....
BY THE SIDES OF THINE HOUSE] RV 'in the innermost parts of thine house,' i.e. in the women's apartment. OLIVE PLANTS] a precious tree in Palestine. 5. 'May the Lord bless thee out of Zion,' i.e. from...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 128 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi
BY THE SIDES — No doubt the _inner part_ of the house is meant (see Psalms 48:2) — the _gynecœum_ or woman’s quarter — or perhaps the sides of the inner court or quadrangle. This is no more out of kee...
אֶשְׁתְּךָ֤ ׀ כְּ גֶ֥פֶן פֹּרִיָּה֮ בְּ יַרְכְּתֵ֪י...
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...
Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy (c) children like olive plants round about thy table. (c) Because God's favour appears in no outward thing more than in the inc...
Back. Hebrew, "labourers have laboured on my neck," (St. Jerome) or "back." They have made me bear the yoke, or have ploughed up my back. This proverbial expression shews the cruelty of the Babylonian...
3_Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house. _Here again it is promised, as in the preceding Psalm, that God will make those who honor him fruitful in a numerous offspring. The ma...
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...
THY WIFE [SHALL BE] AS A FRUITFUL VINE BY THE SIDES OF THINE HOUSE,.... The vine being a weak and tender tree, which needs propping and supporting; and often is fastened to the sides of a house, to wh...
Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Ver. 3. _Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine_] Full of bunches and clusters...
_Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine_ “He will bless thee also in thy wife, and make her as fruitful as the vine, which spreads itself, laden with full clusters, over all the sides of thy house; and...
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house, not on the outside, however, in club and society life, but in the rear, the inner rooms of the house, not a mere clinging vine, but a...
THE HAPPINESS OF THE PIOUS. A song of degrees, setting forth the temporal blessings of true piety. Cf Zechariah 8....
AS A FRUITFUL VINE; 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 beare...
Psalms 128:3 wife H802 fruitful H6509 (H8802) vine H1612 heart H3411 house H1004 children H1121 olive H2132 plants...
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...
_Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine._ A PATTERN WIFE There are trailing slatterns, like brambles and nettles, who leave conspicuous in a dwelling what they should conceal, and choke with unsightlin...
_For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands._ PIETY THE CHARM OF THE POOR MAN’S HOME Here are three things which are essential materials to make a good home. I. A godly and industrious father. He...
_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....
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...
Ezekiel 19:10; Genesis 49:22; Hosea 14:6; Hosea 14:7; Jeremiah 11:16;
Olive — plants — Numerous, growing and flourishing....