9 Who hath placed our soul in life, And suffered not our feet to be moved.
He suffereth not thy foot to be moved, Thy preserver slumbereth not.
The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.
And the fat ones of earth have eaten, And they bow themselves, Before Him bow do all going down to dust, And he `who' hath not revived his soul.
Only -- He `is' my rock, and my salvation, My tower, I am not much moved.
If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.
For -- to the age he is not moved; For a memorial age-during is the righteous.
for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.
for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God; when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.
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Commentary on Psalms 66 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 66
This is a thanksgiving-psalm, and it is of such a general use and application that we need not suppose it penned upon any particular occasion. All people are here called upon to praise God,
If we have learned in every thing to give thanks for ancient and modern mercies, public and personal mercies, we shall know how to sing this psalm with grace and understanding.
To the chief musician. A song or psalm.
Psa 66:1-7
Psa 66:8-12
In these verses the psalmist calls upon God's people in a special manner to praise him. Let all lands do it, but Israel's land particularly. Bless our God; bless him as ours, a God in covenant with us, and that takes care of us as his own. Let them make the voice of his praise to be heard (v. 8); for from whom should it be heard but from those who are his peculiar favourites and select attendants? Two things we have reason to bless God for:-
Psa 66:13-20
The psalmist, having before stirred up all people, and all God's people in particular, to bless the Lord, here stirs up himself and engages himself to do it.