Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he makes it not to grow.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Neither is my house As if he should say: This everlasting covenant was not due to my house: but purely owing to his bounty, who is all my salvation, and my will; that is, who hath always saved me, and granted me what I desired of him; so that I and my house, through his blessing, have sprung up, and succeeded in all things. (Challoner)
He clearly distinguishes between the covenant made with him as to his earthy kingdom, and that which regards Christ. (Worthington)
Even the former should be of long duration, Psalm cxxxi. 11. (Haydock)
Up. Hebrew seems to contradict all that had gone before; "for it shall not flourish. "(Calmet)
Protestants, "although he make it not to grow "(Haydock) unless we read with an interrogation, "And shall not my family flourish? "which was a natural reverence to ver. 4. (Calmet)
God had blessed David with the dew of heaven, and with the fatness of the earth. (Menochius)
His glory and happiness should not be of short duration, like the brightest summer-day, or a transient flower. (Haydock)
