Union of Gladness and Goodness
Hugh Black. Psalm 118:15-16 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.… It demoralizes life and religion to believe that God does not desire the happiness of His creatures, just as surely as it demoralizes life and religion to imagine that He has no higher aim for them than that they should be happy. It was a wise, as well as a Scriptural, answer which was given to the first question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism as to man's chief end. "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever." It is not without reason that spiritual life and blessedness are always in some form joined together; for goodness and happiness were not meant to be divided. Culture and restraint. (Hugh Black.) Parallel Verses KJV: The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly. WEB: The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. "The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.