Verse 1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: From my youth — From the time that I was a people.
Verse 4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. Righteous — Faithful or merciful. The cords — Wherewith the plow was drawn. By these cords he understands all their plots and endeavours.
Verse 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: House-tops — Which there were flat. Which — Having no deep root, never comes to maturity. And so all their designs shall be abortive.
Verse 8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. The blessing — Which was an usual salutation given by passengers to reapers: so the meaning is, it never continues ’till the harvest comes.