Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. The king shall joy ] ajym ûlm melech Meshicha, "the King Messiah." - Targum. What a difference between ancient and modern heroes! The former acknowledged all to be of God, because they took care to have their quarrel rightly founded; the latter sing a Te Deum, pro forma, because they well know that their battle is not of the Lord. Their own vicious conduct sufficiently proves that they looked no higher than the arm of human strength. God suffers such for a time, but in the end he confounds and brings them to naught.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - Happy the people whose king makes God's strength his confidence, an God's salvation his joy; who is pleased with all the advancements of God kingdom, and trusts God to support him in all he does for the service of it. All our blessings are blessings of goodness, and ar owing, not to any merit of ours, but only to God's goodness. But when God's blessings come sooner, and prove richer than we imagine; when they are given before we prayed for them, before we were ready for them, nay, when we feared the contrary; then it may be truly said tha he prevented, or went before us, with them. Nothing indeed prevented or went before Christ, but to mankind never was any favour mor preventing than our redemption by Christ. Thou hast made him to be universal, everlasting blessing to the world, in whom the families of the earth are, and shall be blessed; and so thou hast made his exceeding glad with the countenance thou hast given to his undertaking and to him in the prosecution of it. The Spirit of prophecy rises from what related to the king, to that which is peculiar to Christ; non other is blessed for ever, much less a blessing for ever.
Original Hebrew למנצח5329 מזמור4210 לדוד׃1732 יהוה3068 בעזך5797 ישׂמח8055 מלך4428 ובישׁועתך3444 מה4100 יגיל1523 מאד׃3966
