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PSALM 99
THE ARGUMENT
This Psalm is supposed to be David’s, and the matter of it seems to suit to his time and the state of affairs which then was; although as David was a type of Christ, so this Psalm may look beyond David unto the Messias. But it doth not speak so fully nor clearly of the Messias as the foregoing Psalms do.
The psalmist setteth forth the weighty power of God in Zion, Psa_99:1,2. God’s holiness a reason for our praising him, Psa_99:3, Equity and righteousness executed in Jacob, Psa_99:4. The church exhorted by the example of their forefathers, Psa_99:5-8, to praise and magnify him in his holy hill, Psa_99:9.
The people, to wit such are are enemies to God and to his people. Between the cherubims; upon the ark. See 1Sa_4:4. He is present with his people to protect them, and to punish their enemies. The earth; the people of the earth, by comparing this clause with the former. Be moved, to wit, with fear and trembling, as in the former clause.