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“It Shall Be Well with Thee”
Psa 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, Psa 128:1-2. He is reverent and devout. Peace is on his face; he is happy in himself and in his home; respected among his fellows; and garners at the end the results of his work. The wife and house-mother, Psa 128:3. She is like the vine surrounding the inner court of an oriental house, yielding shade and refreshment. The children, Psa 128:3. The olive is the symbol of enduring prosperity and joy. The young plants will presently be bedded out to become trees of mature growth.
Forebodings Past deliverances, Psa 129:1-4. Israel’s youth was spent in Egypt. See Hos 2:15; Hos 11:1; Jer 2:6. As the plow tears up the soil, so the lash cuts their quivering flesh. But in such furrows God sows the seed of a blessed “afterward.” When our case is desperate, God cuts the oxen’s binding cords, the plow stands still, and the bitter pain ceases. Forebodings and predictions, Psa 129:5-8. Withered grass, unmourned, fit only for fuel. Such is the fate of those who oppress God’s people. The reference is to the scant blades which grow on the flat roof of an Eastern house. The usual benediction on the reaper’s toil will never extend to those withered blades.