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THY WIFE SHALL BE AS A FRUITFUL VINE BY THE SIDES OF THINE HOUSE - It
is not uncommon in the East, as elsewhere, to train a vine along the
sides of a house - partly to save ground; partly because it i...
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PSALM 120-134
The Psalms of Degrees
Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents.
They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem
three times a year to celebrat...
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CXXVIII. THE BLESSING OF A PIOUS HOME.
Psalms 128:2_ a. i.e._ without being robbed by the oppressor. This
shows how low peasant life in Israel has sunk.
Psalms 128:3. Observe the seclusion of women....
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WIFE... FRUITFUL. The reference is, as in Psalms 127 to the fact that
Hezekiah was childless at this time and ionged for an heir. App-67.
CHILDREN. SONS....
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THY WIFE SHALL BE, &C.— The author of the Observations remarks, that
it does not appear from the accounts of any traveller, that it was
ever the custom of the Jews to conduct vines along the sides of...
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PSALMS 128
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Happy Home and a Prosperous Commonwealth.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 128:1-3, The Happy Home Described. Stanza II.,
Psalms 128:4-6, The Interest of the Commonwealth
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy
children like olive plants round about thy table.
THY WIFE (SHALL BE) AS A FRUITFUL VINE BY THE SIDES OF THINE HOUSE -
or 'in t...
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128:3 house; (i-15) Or 'by the sides of thy house.'...
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
PSALMS 128
PSALMS FOR CLIMBING;
PSALMS 120:134
Jesus said, "We wi
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BY THE SIDES — No doubt the _inner part_ of the house is meant (see
Psalms 48:2) — the _gynecœum_ or woman’s quarter — or perhaps
the sides of the inner court or quadrangle. This is no more out of
kee...
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אֶשְׁתְּךָ֤ ׀ כְּ גֶ֥פֶן פֹּרִיָּה֮
בְּ יַרְכְּתֵ֪י...
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Psalms 128:1
THE preceding psalm traced all prosperity and domestic felicity to
God's giving hand. It painted in its close the picture of a father
surrounded by his sons able to defend him. This psalm...
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“IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THEE”
Psalms 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_, Psalms
128:1-2. He is rev...
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This song naturally follows the one in which Jehovah's relation to the
home, as building and establishing it, is recognised. It is chiefly
interesting as it reveals the singer's conception of the rela...
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Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house:
thy (c) children like olive plants round about thy table.
(c) Because God's favour appears in no outward thing more than in the
inc...
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Back. Hebrew, "labourers have laboured on my neck," (St. Jerome) or
"back." They have made me bear the yoke, or have ploughed up my back.
This proverbial expression shews the cruelty of the Babylonian...
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3_Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house.
_Here again it is promised, as in the preceding Psalm, that God will
make those who honor him fruitful in a numerous offspring. The
ma...
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A numerous progeny are distinctly God's gift: happy the man that has
his quiver full of them (Psalms 128). The blessings spoken of are
declared to be the portion of whoever fears Jehovah. It is presen...
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THY WIFE [SHALL BE] AS A FRUITFUL VINE BY THE SIDES OF THINE
HOUSE,.... The vine being a weak and tender tree, which needs propping
and supporting; and often is fastened to the sides of a house, to
wh...
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Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house:
thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Ver. 3. _Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine_] Full of bunches and
clusters...
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_Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine_ “He will bless thee also in
thy wife, and make her as fruitful as the vine, which spreads itself,
laden with full clusters, over all the sides of thy house; and...
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house, not
on the outside, however, in club and society life, but in the rear,
the inner rooms of the house, not a mere clinging vine, but a...
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THE HAPPINESS OF THE PIOUS.
A song of degrees, setting forth the temporal blessings of true piety.
Cf Zechariah 8....
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AS A FRUITFUL VINE; like the vine for fruitfulness; or like that sort
of vines known by this name for its eminent fruitfulness, as some
trees amongst us are for the same reason called _the great beare...
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Psalms 128:3 wife H802 fruitful H6509 (H8802) vine H1612 heart H3411
house H1004 children H1121 olive H2132 plants...
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CONTENTS: The prosperity of those who live in the fear of God and in
obedience to Him.
CHARACTERS: God, Israel.
CONCLUSION: Those who are truly holy are truly happy. Those may be
assured of a prospe...
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REFLECTIONS.
We have here another family psalm. It compresses all the blessings of
the Hebrew covenant into a short compass.
(1) We have the character: he fears the Lord. He is in every view a
trul...
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_Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine._
A PATTERN WIFE
There are trailing slatterns, like brambles and nettles, who leave
conspicuous in a dwelling what they should conceal, and choke with
unsightlin...
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_For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands._
PIETY THE CHARM OF THE POOR MAN’S HOME
Here are three things which are essential materials to make a good
home.
I. A godly and industrious father. He...
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_Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord._
THE BLESSED TENDENCY OF TRUE PIETY
The subject is the blessed tendency of true piety, and the truly pious
man is described as one that “feareth the Lord...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 128:1. This wisdom psalm expands some of
the topics in Psalms 127:1....
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INTRODUCTION
This, like the former, is a Psalm for families. In that, we were
taught that the prosperity of our families depends upon the blessing
of God: in this, we are taught that the only way to...
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EXPOSITION
IT is not quite easy to see why this psalm occurs among the "Songs of
Ascents." The sentiment of it is that true religion never loses its
reward; or, in other words, that whoever fears God...
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Continuing to deal with the family and all, the next psalm.
Blessed is every one that feareth [or reverences] the LORD; and walks
in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labor of your hands: happy shalt...
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Ezekiel 19:10; Genesis 49:22; Hosea 14:6; Hosea 14:7; Jeremiah 11:16;
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Olive — plants — Numerous, growing and flourishing....