‘Oh how great is your goodness,
Which you have laid up for those who fear you,
Which you have wrought for those who take refuge in you,
Before the sons of men!'
In the covert of your presence will you hide them,
From the plottings of man,
You will keep them secretly in a pavilion,
From the strife of tongues.
Now the Psalmist, fully restored in his thoughts and filled with a sense of God's goodness, gives praise to God. He exalts in the greatness of that goodness, a goodness which God has stored up for those who fear Him, and which He has wrought for those who take refuge in YHWH, and that before the sons of men. So God is now seen as active on behalf of all His true people, and he is confident that as a result God will hide His people from the plottings of men in ‘the hiding-place of His face' (the place where God meets only with those who are His own), and will keep them hidden away in His pavilion where none can hurt them, safe from the activities of men's tongues.