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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 1 This psalm, though without a title, may reasonably be thought to be a psalm of David; since the next psalm, which is also without a title, is ascribed to him, Acts 4:25; and since both are joined together as one psalm by the Jews (k); [See comments on Acts 13:33]; and since this is the general preface to the whole book, which is chiefly of David's penning, it is entitled,...
John Gill
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,.... Or, "for then shall he be", c. as Alshech renders the words and the Hebrew "vau" is often used for "then" (q). As Psalms 1:1 describe the man who is blessed, this points at his blessedness, and shows and proves him to be an happy man; for he is comparable to a "tree": not to a dry tree, or a tree without fruit, or whose fruit is...
Matthew Henry
The Happy Man. 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Verse 3. "And he shall be like a tree planted" — not a wild tree, but "a tree planted," chosen, considered as property, cultivated and secured from the last terrible uprooting, for "every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up:" Mat_15:13. "By the rivers of water;" so that even if one river should fail, he hath another. The rivers of pardon and the rivers of grace,...