And he hath set his pavilion in Salem,

And his habitation in Zion.

For the words pavilionand habitationapplied to the Temple see Psalms 27:5; Psalms 68:5. The words may however mean the covertand lairof a lion (Psalms 10:9; Psalms 104:22; Amos 3:4); and it is possible that the Psalmist intends to describe God as the lion of Judah, who has issued forth from His lair, and seized His prey. Cp. Psalms 76:4, and the simile in Isaiah 31:4.

Salemis either an old name for Jerusalem (Genesis 14:18), or a poetical abbreviation. The name means -unharmed," -at peace," and it is doubtless used with allusion to the recent escape of Zion from destruction (Isaiah 33:20).

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