The Lord is the true God. — Literally, Jehovah is the God that is Truth. The thought expressed is that for which St. John, as indeed the LXX. does here, uses the word alçthinos (John 17:3; 1 John 5:20), Truth in its highest and most perfect form. So “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).
An everlasting king. — Here, as in other like passages, the English Version is not wrong, but the Hebrew idiom “King of Eternity” is far grander.