Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 5. The man whose strength is in thee] "Who life and strength from thee derives; And by thee moves and in thee lives." In whose heart are the ways of them - This is no sense. The original, however, is obscure: µbblb twlsm mesilloth bilebabam, "the high ways are in their hearts;" that is, the roads winding to thy temple. Perhaps there is a reference here to the high roads leading to the cities of refuge. We wish to escape from the hands and dominion of these murderers, and the roads that lead to Jerusalem and the temple we think on with delight; our hearts are with them, we long to be traveiling on them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - The ordinances of God are the believer's solace in this evil world; in them he enjoys the presence of the living God: this causes him to regret his absence from them. They are to his soul as the nest to the bird. Yet they are only an earnest of the happiness of heaven; but ho can men desire to enter that holy habitation, who complain of Divin ordinances as wearisome? Those are truly happy, who go forth, and go of in the exercise of religion, in the strength of the grace of Jesu Christ, from whom all our sufficiency is. The pilgrims to the heavenl city may have to pass through many a valley of weeping, and many thirsty desert; but wells of salvation shall be opened for them, an consolations sent for their support. Those that press forward in their Christian course, shall find God add grace to their graces. And thos who grow in grace, shall be perfect in glory.
Original Hebrew אשׁרי835 אדם120 עוז5797 לו בך מסלות4546 בלבבם׃3824
