An exhortation to a solemn praising of God. God challengeth that duty by reason of his benefits. God, exhorting to obedience, complaineth of their disobedience, which proverb their own hurt.
To the chief musician, upon Gittith: A Psalm of Asaph.
Title. ףּלאס הגתית על למנצח lamnatseach al haggittith leasaph.] This psalm is supposed to have been written for the feast of trumpets. See Leviticus 23:24. In the Jewish Liturgy it is still made use of upon this occasion. To this the blowing of the trumpet (Psalms 81:3.) refers; for the new moon in the month Tisri, when this feast was celebrated, was the first day of the Jewish year; at which time the world was supposed to have been created. See Numbers 29.