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Blessed are those who keep justice,
And he who does righteousness at all times!
Like the Greek word used in Matthew 5 when Jesus gave the sermon on the mount, the Hebrew word here for Blessed means happy, happiness, or blessedness. To me this is another way of the Holy Spirit saying that it’s really quite simple, if you keep God’s statutes and do righteousness we’ll be happy. We all fail at one point or another, but the key is to keep seeking God and His righteousness. When we keep seeking we are striving to do righteousness and when we fall, if we are faithful to run to Jesus, He will lift us up and get us back on the way. Spurgeon points out that the psalmist saw how the tribes of old prospered when they obeyed and suffered when they sinned, if we continue to look at the examples that God gives us we should be encouraged to keep His word and faithfully praise and worship Him……..Bill
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Charles Spurgeon
Since the Lord is so good and so worthy to be praised, it must be for our happiness to obey him.
“Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.” Multiplied are the blessings which must descend upon the whole company of the keepers of the way of justice, and especially upon that one rare man who at all times follows that which is right. Holiness is happiness. The way of right is the way of peace. Yet men leave this road and prefer the paths of the destroyer. Hence the story which follows is in sad contrast with the happiness here depicted because the way of Israel was not that of judgment and righteousness, but that of folly and iniquity. The Psalmist, while contemplating the perfections of God, was impressed with the feeling that the servants of such a being must be happy, and when he looked around and saw how the tribes of old prospered when they obeyed and suffered when they sinned, he was still more fully assured of the truth of his conclusion. O could we but be free of sin we should be rid of sorrow! We would not only be just, but “keep judgment;” we would not be content with occasionally acting rightly, but would “do justice at all times.”
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Enduring Word
Blessed are those “…that are of right principles and upright practices; this is real and substantial praising of God. Thanks doing is the proof of thanksgiving; and the good life of the thankful is the life of thankfulness.” (Trapp)
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Barnes
Blessed are they that keep judgment – They are blessed, for their conduct is right, and it leads to happiness. The Hebrew is, “the keepers of judgment;” that is, they who observe the rules of justice in their conduct, or who are governed by the principles of integrity.
And he that doeth righteousness at all times – All who yield obedience to just law – whether a nation or an individual. The psalm is designed to illustrate this “by contrast;” that is, by showing, in the conduct of the Hebrew people, the consequences of “disobedience,” and thus impliedly what would have been, and what always must be, the consequences of the opposite course. Compare Psalms 15:1-5.
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John Gill
Blessed are they that keep judgment,…. Or “observe” it; the righteous judgment of God on wicked men; by which he is known in his justice, holiness, truth, and faithfulness; and by which the inhabitants of the earth observing it, learn to do righteousness, as follows: or else it may intend the word of God, his laws, statutes, and ordinances, after called his judgments, Psalm 19:9, which should be observed and kept, as the rule of our actions, walk, and conversation.
[And] he that doeth righteousness at all times; continually believes in Christ for righteousness, and puts on that as his justifying righteousness; whereby he becomes righteous as he is, 1 John 3:7, and performs acts of righteousness from a principle of grace, as a fruit of regeneration, and an evidence of it, 1 John 2:29, that does it with right views, aims, and ends; not to be justified and saved by it, but because God requires it; and it is for his glory, and to testify subjection to him, and thankfulness for favors received from him. And this is to be done at all times; we should never be weary of well doing, but be always abounding in good works; and happy are those that will be found so doing, such are “blessed” persons: not that their blessedness lies in or arises from righteousness done by them; but this is descriptive of such that are blessed in Christ with the remission of sins, and his justifying righteousness. And these are the proper persons to show forth the mighty acts and praise of the Lord; they are most capable of it and more likely to perform it with acceptance than any other; see Psalm 50:14.
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Matthew Henry
To bless the people of God, to call and account them happy (v. 3): Those that keep judgment are blessed, for they are fit to be employed in praising God. God’s people are those whose principles are sound-They keep judgment (they adhere to the rules of wisdom and religion, and their practices are agreeable); they do righteousness, are just to God and to all men, and herein they are steady and constant; they do it at all times, in all manner of conversation, at every turn, in every instance, and herein persevering to the end.
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Clarke
Verse Psalms 106:3. Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times. — How near do the Anglo-Saxon, the ancient Scottish Version, and the present translation, approach to each other!
Anglo-Saxon. [A.S.]. “Blessed they that holdeth doom, and doth righteousness in ilkere tide.”
Anglo-Scottish. Blisful tha that kepes dome, and duse rightwisnes in ilk tyme.
Those are truly blessed, or happy, whose hearts are devoted to God, and who live in the habit of obedience. Those, the general tenor of whose life is not conformed to the will of God, have no true happiness.
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KJV W/ STRONGS BIBLE – PSALMS 106
106:3 Blessed 835 [are] they that keep 8104 8802 judgment 4941, [and] he that doeth 6213 8802 righteousness 6666 at all times 6256.
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Geneva Bible 1560
Psalm 106:3
3 Blessed are they that b keep judgement, and do righteousness at all times.
b He shows that it is not enough to praise God with mouth, except the whole heart agree thereunto, and all our life be thereunto framed.
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