Psalms 128

This Psalm contains a description of the blessedness of good men.

BLessed is every one that feareth the LORD: that walketh in his ways.

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands 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.: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee Both in this world and in the world to come, as even the Chaldee Paraphrast explains these words..

Thy wife shall be 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 bearers. by the sides of thine house 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.: thy children like oliveplants Numerous, growing and flourishing, good both for ornament and manifold uses, as Olive-trees are. round about thy table Where they shall sit at meat with thee, for thy comfort and safety..

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed, that feareth the LORD.

The LORD shall bless thee 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 thou shalt ask of God in Zion.: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem The prosperity of that City to which thou belongest, and which is the only 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., all the days of thy life.

Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children, and peace upon Israel Not only upon Ierusalem and the parts adjacent, but upon all the Tribes and people of Israel..