God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
All Commentaries on Psalms 67:1 Go To Psalms 67
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Upon us, to grant our requests; or may the Messias come, Hebrews i. 3.
And may, is in the Arabic, and in most copies of the Septuagint and Vulgate, though it is omitted in Hebrew, "and we shall live. "(Ethiopic) (Calmet)
Perhaps it may be given to express the sense of Selah, which seems to have been a term of approbation. It does not alter the sense. (Berthier)
God first forgives sins, and then bestows his manifold graces. (Worthington)
This was the form of solemn blessing, Numbers vi. 17. (Du Hamel)