Psalms 99:1

CONTENTS

The Prophet in this Psalm, as in several of the preceding, is still engaged in sounding forth the high praises of the kingdom of God in Christ. In the latter part, the Psalmist refers to several of the Old Testament Prophets, as examples in the Church, of praising the Lord.

Psalms 99:1

God's sovereignty and reign is first spoken of in the opening of this Psalm, as a cause for holy fear to all the earth. And this perfection of Jehovah is held forth as the reason for universal homage and reverence. Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? Will ye not tremble at my presence? Jeremiah 5:22. But, as if the Lord had a peculiar eye to the comfort of his Church, he adds, in the latter part of the verse, God's sitting between the cherubim, or on the mercy-seat, whence the Lord promised to speak to his people, Exodus 25:21. Reader! what a lovely representation is this of Jesus, our mercy-seat, and God's propitiatory! And are not all the sweet words of grace which we hear spoken to us, in and by Jesus? 1 Samuel 4:4; Numbers 7:89.