Verse 5
5. Thy testimonies The words apply to the charges and declarations delivered to Moses for the people, constituting the entire torah, or system of the law, (Psalms 19:7,) but is here specially used of the annexed promises of divine protection and favour to such as keep the law. Psalms 94:12.
Are… sure Literally, Have been amen. Compare 2 Corinthians 1:20; Revelation 19:9; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:6. They have proved faithful and true through all this terrible ordeal of danger and suffering by the uproar and tumult of the nations.
Holiness becometh thine house And therefore God will defend it against the daring assaults of wicked men, and purge his own people from corruptions by the terrible ordeal of judgments, like a summer threshing floor. The psalmist recognises the preserved sanctity of the house of God as the moral reason for the divine interference, and as the crowning glory of deliverance. Also, this recognition of the standing of the temple at the time offers a clew to the date of writing.
For ever Hebrew, To length of days; and the duration of this term being determined by the nature of the subject, makes it “for ever.” Compare the same form in Psalms 23:6. But when God’s own people forget that holiness is the chief adornment of them and the sanctuary where they worship, he will sweep them from the earth. See in 2 Chronicles 36:15-19.
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