For you prevent him - You go before him; you anticipate him. See (Psalms 17:13, margin). Our word “prevent” is now most…

You anticipate him — that is, you come to meet him. The word “prevent” is familiar in this sense in the English collect: “Prevent …

You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. For you prevent him with the blessings of goodness…

For you will anticipate him. The change of tense in the verbs does not break the connection of the discourse. Therefore, I have, without h…

For you prevent him with the blessings of goodness
Not temporal, but spiritual blessings, which spring from the grac…

Happy the people whose king makes God's strength his confidence, and God's salvation his joy; who is pleased with all the advancements of God's kin…

1. In the preceding psalm, a petition was made for the king’s exaltation; here, it is as though the psalmist, having been heard, now announc…