Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"[When] our garners are full, affording all manner of store, [And] our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;" — Psalms 144:13 (ASV)
That our garners may be full - That our fields may yield abundance, so that our granaries may always be filled.
Affording all manner of store - The margin reads, “From kind to kind.” The Hebrew is, “From sort to sort;” that is, every sort or kind of produce or grain; all, in variety, that is needed for the supply of man and beast.
That our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets - A great part of the wealth of Palestine always consisted in flocks of sheep; and, from the earliest periods, not a few of the inhabitants were shepherds. This language, therefore, is used to denote national prosperity.
In our streets - The Hebrew word used here properly means whatever is outside; what is out of doors or abroad, as opposed to what is inside (such as the inside of a house); and then, what is outside a town, as opposed to what is inside it. It may, therefore, mean a street (Jeremiah 37:21; Job 18:17; Isaiah 5:25); and then the country, the fields, pastures, etc.: (Job 5:10; Proverbs 8:26). Here it refers to the pastures, the fields, the commons.