Psalms 128

But this is the first commandment that has a particular promise made to it: "That your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you." Long life is mentioned as a blessing (Psalm 128:6). "You shall see your children's children."

Therefore saith the Psalmist, Psalm 127:3. Lo, children are the inheritance of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward: And speaking of them, Psalm 128:4, he saith, Lo, thus shall he be blessed that feareth the Lord. The use is, to teach Parents, therefore to bring the…

From where their manner of sitting was termed, Mesibah, a sitting round from, [in non-Latin alphabet] circumivit, ambivit, and their phrase of inviting their guests to sit down, was sit round (1 Samuel 16:11): we will not sit round, (so the Hebrew and the margent render it, Lo N…

In the meantime he shows, that we may justly call wheat and wine ours, when we have obtained them by our honest labor: for those who rob others of their bread, or get it by unlawful means, hold it not by any right from the Lord; neither can they attribute goods so gotten, to his…

Verse 3. Your two breasts are like two young Roes that are twins. The two breasts (which is the fifth part here commended) are spoken to in this third verse: They were spoken of (Song of Solomon 4:5) with the same commendation, and we conceive the same thing hinted there, is aim…

He is, under God, all in all to her; in the family he is a king to govern and aid her, a priest to pray with her and for her, a prophet to teach and instruct her. As the head is placed in the highest place over the body, and understanding placed in it, to govern, direct, protect…

He who has on this Breast-Plate of Gods Fear, may be shot at, but can never be shot thorow. 9. The Fear of God makes all things go well with us, Psalm 128:2. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord, happy shalt you be, and it shall be well with you.

As it is God that gives the power to get riches (Deuteronomy 8:18), so it is he who gives knowledge, skill, wisdom, a heart seasoned with his fear, and cheered with his favor, whereby we may with quiet contentment, and sweet tranquility, make use of those blessings which are rea…

Whom therefore 3. he planted as a root here on earth with us, and clothed with a human nature, a weak and mean bark and body, and a rind and outside, such as ours is; that so both root and branches might be of the same nature, and homogeneous: which nature of ours in him, he lik…