Psalms 129:8 (KJV)
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
There are at least two ways to understand this passage:
They would not necessarily have to be the same individuals but rather a type of person. Those who follow the Lord often find that those who do not are aggressive and seem to have the upper hand. In the end, that is not true. They do not have the upper hand. They merely have the friendship of this world.
Second, “they which go by” might be other Jews, people just like the Psalmist, passing him during day by day events.
In this case, the tenor sounds to me like, because of affliction, the average person is unhappy, depressed. He doesn’t have joy enough to share a blessing with his brethren.
Either way, the implication is that the Psalmist observed, lamented, and even suffered from the absence of this common blessing.
May we never be so down that we do not offer a prayer of blessing upon those we meet along the way.
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Psalms 129:8 (KJV) The Blessing of the LORD
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