Psalms 34:5

5. They looked “Looked,” here, imports intense longing, as Numbers 21:9. But who “looked?” The subject of the verb is not apparent, the humble, (Psalms 34:2,) being too far removed. It is better taken as a universal truth, as if David had suddenly generalized his local experience. “They looked,” equal to, whosoever looketh, etc.

Were lightened Brightened up. The shining of God’s face radiated theirs. Exodus 34:29-35. The word nahar commonly means to flow, (the noun is the ordinary word for river,) and might here be rendered flowed together; but as it stands contrasted with ashamed, in the next line, it is better to take the more radical sense, as in Isaiah 60:5, where instead of “flow together,” as in the English Bible, read “shalt shine.”