Psalms 99:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

PSALM 99 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm is supposed to be David s, and the matter of it seems to suit to his time and the state of affairs which then was; although as David was a type of Christ, so this Psalm may look beyond David unto the Messias. But it doth not speak so fully nor clearly of the Messias as the foregoing Psalms do. The psalmist setteth forth the weighty power of God in Zion, Psalms 99:1,2. God's holiness a reason for our praising him, Psalms 99:3, Equity and righteousness executed in Jacob, Psalms 99:4. The church exhorted by the example of their forefathers, Psalms 99:5-8, to praise and magnify him in his holy hill, Psalms 99:9. The people, to wit such are are enemies to God and to his people. Between the cherubims; upon the ark. See 1 Samuel 4:4. He is present with his people to protect them, and to punish their enemies. The earth; the people of the earth, by comparing this clause with the former. Be moved, to wit, with fear and trembling, as in the former clause.