Psalms 128:6

Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel. YEA, THOU SHALT SEE THY CHILDREN'S CHILDREN - like Job () and Joseph (.) Cf . On the contrary, in times of national distress, men die early. PEACE UPON ISRAEL - (.)...

Verse Psalms 128:6. _YEA, THOU SHALT SEE THY CHILDREN'S CHILDREN_] Thou shall not die till thou have seen thy family all settled in the world, and those of them who may be _married_ blessed with children. AND _PEACE UPON ISRAEL._] This is the same conclusion as in Psalms 125:5; and should be translated, _Peace be upon Israel_! May God favour his own cause, and bless all his people! ANALYSIS OF THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH PSALM In this Psalm the prophet persuades men to fear God upon the several rewards that attend upon piety. It is divided into _three_ parts. I. He describes the pious man, and pronounces him blessed,...

YEA, THOU SHALT SEE THY CHILDREN’S CHILDREN - This is a continuation of the idea of blessedness as connected with a numerous posterity - an object of so much interest to the Hebrews (see the notes at Psalms 128:3), and having its foundation in our nature. AND PEACE UPON ISRAEL - See Psalms 125:5. As the crowning blessing; a blessing above that of success in worldly affairs; above that of seeing a numerous and happy posterity. The love of God is the supreme affection in the mind of a pious man; the desire that his cause may prosper and triumph is to him a supreme desire. Man is truly and completely blessed only in religion....

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 shall be blessed. Five points of blessedness are enumerated (Psalms 128:2, Psalms 128:3, Psalms 128:5, Psalms 128:6); but no one of them seems to attach especially to pilgrims visiting Jerusalem. The picture of domestic life is pleasing, and one scarcely touched by any other psalmist. PSALMS 128:1...

YEA, THOU SHALL SEE THY CHILDREN'S CHILDREN,.... A numerous race of descendants from him, which are the crown and glory of old men, Proverbs 17:6; this is also true of Christ's spiritual children by his church in successive ages, Isaiah 59:21; [AND] PEACE UPON ISRAEL: all kind of prosperity, temporal and spiritual; peace, and abundance of it; as will be in the latter day, in the spiritual reign of Christ, Psalms 72:8. It may be considered as a wish or prayer, with which the psalm is concluded; let "peace be upon Israel" a, as in Psalms 125:5; see...

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 celebrate the feasts of the Lord--”Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.” They are indeed Psalms of “the goings-up” for we rise higher and higher as we read through them. Prophetically they give us again the steps from trial and suffering to the glorious consummation. As they are so simple in language and construction no lengthy annotations are needed. Psalms 120:1 begins with distress, picturing again the suffering of the righteous godly remnant. In Psalms 121:1 the Keeper of Israel, the Covenant Keeping God, is revealed

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. OLIVE PLANTS are a type of fruitfulness. As the parent tree decays, new plants sprout from the roots. They are also an image of beauty and freshness....

THOU SHALT SEE. Hezekiah _did_ see. PEACE. Because this Psalm concludes. group....

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 in Such a Home. (Lm.) Song of the Steps. 1 How happy every one who revereth Jehovah who walketh in his ways! 2 The toil of thine own hands when thou eatest how happy for thee! and good for thine! 3 Thy wife like a fruitful vine in the recesses of thy house! Thy children like plantings of olive-trees around thy table! 4 Lo! surely thus shall be blessed the man who revereth Jehovah. 5 May Jehovah bless th

128:6 Israel! (k-9) Or '... children [and] peace upon Israel.'...