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5Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
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We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;
The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The foundation of all religion is laid in this truth, That the Lord reigns . God governs the world by his providence, governs the church by his grace, and both by his Son. We are to believe not only that the Lord lives , but that the Lord reigns . This is the triumph of the Christian church, and here it was the triumph of the Jewish church, that Jehovah was their King; and hence it is inferred, Le…
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