The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.
Radak
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: They shall praise the Lord that seek after Him: – i.e. Israel, because they are meek, for the Gentiles have been proud until the time of the redemption of Israel; so also Israel is identical with those that seek after Him, for they are seeking after Him in the exile; and when they are redeemed they shall eat and be satisfied with the spoil of their enemies, and delight themselves – the reverse of what they experienced in exile – and they shall say to them: Let your heart live: – the interpretation of which is on the lines of, “and the spirit of Jacob lived” (ibid. 45:27), the converse of “and his heart died” (1 Sam. 25:37); for the living spirit is in the heart, and when man is in trouble his heart dies, as he (the Psalmist) says (Ps. 109:22), and when he passes out from trouble to relief, behold, his heart lives. And the significance of for ever (is): – they shall be no longer in exile, but shall be in their own land, rejoicing and glad of heart, they and their children, for ever.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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