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the seed along the furrows); the latter his sheaves, the produce (תּבוּאה), such as puts him to the blush, of his, as it appeared to him, forlorn sowing. As by the sowing we are to understand everything that each individual contributes towards the building up of the kingdom of God, so by the sheaves, the wholesome fruit which, by God bestowing His blessing upon it beyond our prayer and comprehension, springs up from it.

Psalm 127

Everything Depends upon the Blessing of God[1]


The inscribed לשׁלמה is only added to this Song of degrees because there was found in Psa 127:2 not only an allusion to the name Jedidiah, which Solomon received from Nathan (2Sa 12:25), but also to his being endowed with wisdom and riches in the dream at Gibeon (1Ki 3:5.). And to these is

  1. An Gottes Segen ist alles gelegen.