But as for me, to draw near to God is good for me:

In the Lord Jehovah have I made my refuge;

That I may speak of all thy works.

Emphatically he contrasts himself with those who -go far from God." Once he had been tempted to ask what profit there was in serving God, and openly to speak (Psalms 73:15) of his doubts: but now he can find an endless theme for praise in the dealings of God with the righteous and the wicked. The LXX reads, "that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion," as in Psalms 9:14; and this may preserve the original reading, for the present Heb. text sounds incomplete. The P.B.V. "to speak of all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Sion" combines the LXX with the Heb.

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