1. I will extol thee. I will have high and
honorable conceptions of thee, and give them utterance in my best music. Others
may forget thee, murmur at thee, despise thee, blaspheme thee, but I willextol thee, for I have been favored above all others. I will extol thy
name, thy character, thine attributes, thy mercy to me, thy great forbearance
to my people; but especially will I speak well of thyself; I will extol thee,
O Jehovah; this shall be my cheerful and constant employ. For thou hastlifted me up. Here is an antithesis, “I will exalt thee, for thou hast exalted me.” The psalmist had a reason to give for the praise that was in his
heart. He had been drawn up like a prisoner from a dungeon, like Joseph out of
the pit, and therefore he loved his deliverer. How high has our Lord lifted us?
Lifted us up into the children’s place, to be adopted into the family; lifted
us up into union with Christ, “to sit
together with him in heavenly places.” Lift
high the name of our God, for he has lifted us above the stars. And hast notmade my foes to rejoice over me. This was the judgment which David most
feared; he said, let me fall into the hand of the Lord, and not into the hand
of man. Terrible indeed were our lot if we were delivered over to the will of
our enemies. Blessed be the Lord, we have been preserved from so dire a fate.
The devil and all our spiritual enemies have not been permitted to rejoice over
us, for we have been saved from the fowler’s snare.
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