לָכֵ֤ן ׀ שָׂמַ֣ח לִ֭בִּי וַיָּ֣גֶל כְּבוֹדִ֑י אַף־בְּ֝שָׂרִ֗י יִשְׁכֹּ֥ן לָבֶֽטַח׃
Kaya't nagagalak ang aking puso at nagsasaya ang aking kaluluwa; maging ang aking katawan ay nananahang panatag.
Radak
My glory: – The “glory” is the soul, as “and my glory rejoiceth” (Ps. 16:9); “in order that (my) glory may sing praise to Thee” (Ps. 30:13), and (the word) “shield” which he has already used is to be understood here, “a shield about me” and “a shield of my glory.” Or the interpretation of my glory may be: the opposite of the dishonour which was his as a fugitive.
Rabbeinu Bahya
A Midrashic approach: our verse contains allusions to three Temples. (compare Zevachim 118) The words ישכון לבטח, “will dwell safely,” refer to the first Temple, Solomon’s. This is why in the Book of Chronicles the attribute כבוד is specifically mentioned as filling the inside of that Temple (Chronicles II 7,1). The words “He (the attribute כבוד ) hovers over it all day long,” refer to the second Temple; the word ”hover” denotes a less regular presence than does the word ישכון used by Moses as describing the situation during the first Temple. Finally, the words: “and He dwells between his shoulders,” are a reference to the third Temple when the full extent of the Shechinah will return to the Holy of Holies. This is what our sages explained in Sifri on our verse.
The reason all these allusions are contained in the blessing for Binyamin is that it was this tribe which served as host for the Divine presence. We have a tradition that the body of the original Binyamin was never attacked by worms. There are seven people concerning whom we have a tradition that their bodies were not attacked by worms. They are: Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Moses, Aaron, Miriam and Binyamin the son of Yaakov (compare Baba Batra 17). Of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov the Torah said specifically that G’d blessed them in all respects, i.e. בכל, מכל, כל respectively. Of Moses and Aaron the Torah writes that they died על פי ה', If they died “by a kiss” as our sages describe their mode of dying, it is reasonable that G’d would not allow the worms to attack their remains. Although the Torah, for obvious reasons, does not describe Miriam’s death as similar to that of her brothers, our sages feel certain that her death was similar. As to Binyamin’s death, the very description of him as ידיד ה', “beloved of the Lord,” surely suggests a similar treatment of his body by the Lord. Some sages say that David’s body too was not attacked by worms. They base this on Psalms 16,9 (“also my flesh will dwell securely”). I have heard a support for this theory from Exodus 16,24 describing that the manna which fell on Fridays did not turn putrid and was not attacked by worms, contrary to the manna which fell on other days and was saved overnight. The word הבאיש, normally understood as “turned putrid,” could be read with the first two letters as an acrostic so that it would be ה'ב איש, meaning “7 men” (were not attacked by worms), etc. This would serve as Scriptural support for the view of Rabbi Eleazar that Miriam was also one of the people whose flesh was not attacked by worms. (to make up the number ה'ב=7) The word בו in that same verse in Exodus, having a numerical value of 8, would serve as support for the view that the flesh of an eighth’ person was immune to worms, i.e. the flesh of David.
The reason all these allusions are contained in the blessing for Binyamin is that it was this tribe which served as host for the Divine presence. We have a tradition that the body of the original Binyamin was never attacked by worms. There are seven people concerning whom we have a tradition that their bodies were not attacked by worms. They are: Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Moses, Aaron, Miriam and Binyamin the son of Yaakov (compare Baba Batra 17). Of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov the Torah said specifically that G’d blessed them in all respects, i.e. בכל, מכל, כל respectively. Of Moses and Aaron the Torah writes that they died על פי ה', If they died “by a kiss” as our sages describe their mode of dying, it is reasonable that G’d would not allow the worms to attack their remains. Although the Torah, for obvious reasons, does not describe Miriam’s death as similar to that of her brothers, our sages feel certain that her death was similar. As to Binyamin’s death, the very description of him as ידיד ה', “beloved of the Lord,” surely suggests a similar treatment of his body by the Lord. Some sages say that David’s body too was not attacked by worms. They base this on Psalms 16,9 (“also my flesh will dwell securely”). I have heard a support for this theory from Exodus 16,24 describing that the manna which fell on Fridays did not turn putrid and was not attacked by worms, contrary to the manna which fell on other days and was saved overnight. The word הבאיש, normally understood as “turned putrid,” could be read with the first two letters as an acrostic so that it would be ה'ב איש, meaning “7 men” (were not attacked by worms), etc. This would serve as Scriptural support for the view of Rabbi Eleazar that Miriam was also one of the people whose flesh was not attacked by worms. (to make up the number ה'ב=7) The word בו in that same verse in Exodus, having a numerical value of 8, would serve as support for the view that the flesh of an eighth’ person was immune to worms, i.e. the flesh of David.