Happy are the men whose strength is in thee;

In whose hearts are the highways (to Zion).

Happy are those whose minds are wholly set on pilgrimage to Zion. The phrase is peculiar and to Zionmust be supplied; but this is preferable to rendering highways are in their hearts, and explaining highwaysas a metaphor for right ways of life. The Targ., in whose hearts is confidence, is probably only a free paraphrase. Wellhausen would follow the LXX, and read goings up, i.e. pilgrimages. See Introd. p. xxix.

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