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For thou hast made him most blessed for ever - Margin, as in Hebrew, “set him” to be “blessings.” The expression in our tr…

Most blessed. —Literally, blessings. The idiom is similar to that in Psalms 1:1.
With your countenance.

Honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him. For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenanc…

For thou hast set him to be blessings for ever. Some explain these words simply this way: that God had chosen David to be king in order to…

For you have made him most blessed for ever
Not as God, for as such he is over all blessed for ever, and not made so; but as m…

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…

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…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes