3. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people. Whoever may come to hear
me, devout or profane, believer or heathen, civilized or barbarian, I will not
cease my music. Happy man, to have thus made his choice to be the Lord’s
musician; he retains his office as the Poet Laureate of the kingdom of heaven,
and will retain it till the crack of doom. And I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. This is written, not only to complete the parallelism of
the verse, but to reaffirm his fixed resolve. He would march to battle praising
Jehovah, and when he had conquered he would make the captured cities ring with
Jehovah’s praises. He would carry his religion with him wherever he pushed his
conquests, and the vanquished should not hear the praises of David, but the
glories of the Lord of Hosts. Nations and peoples would soon know the Gospel of
Jesus if every Christian traveler were as intensely devout as the psalmist.
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