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For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
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A Source of Blessing
Commentators explain that the phrase "makest him most blessed" literally means God has set the king "to be blessings." This signifies that the king is not just a recipient of God's favor, but a conduit through whom blessings flow to others. This concept finds its ultimate fulfillment in Christ, who, as Matthew Henry notes, is the universal and everlasting blessing to the world.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For thou hast made him most blessed for ever - Margin, as in Hebrew, “set him” to be “blessings.” The expression in our tr…
19th Century
Anglican
Most blessed. —Literally, blessings. The idiom is similar to that in Psalms 1:1.
With your countenance.
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
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…