Pleasure for Evermore
A. Maclaren, D. D. Psalm 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. That presence which amidst strife, warfare, weakness, and mutability manifested itself in its gift of steadfastness will then, amidst the tranquillity of heaven, manifest itself in a joy unlike all earthly joy, in that it is full; and yet more unlike, if I may say so, all earthly joy in that it is perpetual. Here there is ever something lacking in all our gladness, some guest at the table that sulks and will not partake and rejoice, some unlit window in the illumination, some limitation in the gladness; yonder it shall be full. "I shall be satisfied when I awake in Thy likeness." Here, thank God! we have brooks by the way; there we shall stoop down and drink from the fountain, the ocean of joy. And the gladness is perpetual, in that, having nothing to do with physical causes or externals, there is no cause of change and no certainty of reaction. (A. Maclaren, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. WEB: I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.