Psalms 128:1

Psalms 128:1 «A Song of degrees. » Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

Ver. 1. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord] This psalm is fitly subjoined to the former, and it is λογος επιθαλαμιος, a kind of wedding sermon, written for the instruction and comfort of married couples, and showing that Coniugium humanae est divina Academia vitae. And it is to be observed that here all men are spoken to as wedded; because this is the ordinary estate of most people. See 1 Corinthians 7:1,2. At this day every Jew is bound to marry about eighteen years of age, or before twenty.; else he is accounted as one that liveth in sin; and how the Popish clergy, professing continence, have turned all places into so many Sodoms, who knoweth not?

That walketh in his ways] The true reverential fear of God will easily form the heart to a right obedience. They that fear the Lord will keep his covenant, Psalms 103:13; Psalms 103:18, and therefore was the law delivered at first in that terrible manner.