Psalms 128

Psalms 128:1-6

The portion of the man that fears Jehovah. A song of the ascents. We have here the portion of him who fears Jehovah, but with only a hint of higher blessings than the natural. One might think it patriarchal life restored, but for Jerusalem and Zion. The six verses here give us, I think, an intimation that after all, this is not the full blessing. It scarcely needs comment. It is the happiness of the obedient man. He subsists on his own labor -does not yield it to another. Wife and children are the adornments of his house; and now there is no thought of enemies in the gate. The fourth verse appeals to experience for the proof of the blessing; there being no more the mysteries that perplex us now. In the fifth, the blessing is from Jehovah out of Zion; and Jerusalem is in continual prosperity. Such are the days to which we have here reached: a state of things which the sixth verse only emphasizes in children’s children seen following one another in progressive generations, and still with “peace upon Israel.”