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**TITLE, Psalms.** See App-63 and the Structures on pp. 720, 721. Compare [Luke 20:42](../../../kjv/luke/20/42) , [Luke 24:44](../../../kjv/luke/24/44) , [Acts 1:20](../../../kjv/acts/1/20) .
**BLESSED** = How Happy. The first Psalm begins thus and Psalm 2 ends thus. So does the last Psalm of Book I: [Psalms 41:1](../../../kjv/psalms/41/1) ; [Psalms 41:13](../../../kjv/psalms/41/13) ). Figure of speech *Antiptosis* ( App-6 ). Compare [Jeremiah 17:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/17/7) , [Jeremiah 17:8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/17/8) . See App-63 . for the Beatitudes in the Psalms.
**man.** Hebrew ' *ish* . Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Species), App-6 , for all of both sexes.
**walketh, &c:** i.e. who never did walk . . . stand . . . sit. Figure of speech *Anabasis* , three triplets: walketh counsel ungodly = continue in. standeth way sinners = carry out. sitteth seat scornful = settle down.
**ungodly** = lawless. Hebrew. *rasha'.* App-44 .
**sinners.** Hebrew. *chata'.*
**scornful** = scoffers. Hebrew. *luz.*

**the law** = instruction: i.e. the whole Pentateuch which contains it.
**meditate:** i.e. continually and habitually.

**be** = become, or prove. Figure of speech *Simile.* App-6 . Like a tree. The first of two comparisons. See [Psalms 1:4](../../../kjv/psalms/1/4) .
**planted:** i.e. in a garden. Not a "tree of the field".
**rivers** = divisions irrigating a garden. Hebrew. *palgey-mayim.* See note on [Proverbs 21:1](../../../kjv/proverbs/21/1) .
**prosper.** Compare [Genesis 39:3](../../../kjv/genesis/39/3) , [Genesis 39:23](../../../kjv/genesis/39/23) .

**are not so, &c.** = not so the ungodly.
**like the chaff.** The other comparison. See [Psalms 1:3](../../../kjv/psalms/1/3) . Compare [Psalms 35:5](../../../kjv/psalms/35/5) .
**wind.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .

**stand** = rise. No part in first resurrection. [Revelation 20:5](../../../kjv/revelation/20/5) , [Revelation 20:6](../../../kjv/revelation/20/6) . Compare [Psalms 49:14](../../../kjv/psalms/49/14) .
**congregation** = assembly.
**righteous** = justified.

**For.** *Effect* latent in first clause: *cause* latent in second clause.
**knoweth** = approveth, or acknowledged. Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause). Compare [Nahum 1:7](../../../kjv/nahum/1/7) . [2 Timothy 2:19](../../../kjv/2-timothy/2/19) .
**perish** = come to naught.

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