The prophet exhorteth to praise God, for his great works, for his judgments on the wicked, and for his goodness to the godly.
A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath-day.
Title. השׁבת ליום שׁיר מזמרו mizmor shiir leiom hash-shabbath.— This psalm was used by the Jews in their public services on the Sabbath-day. The rabbis pretend that it was written by Adam. But as the instruments of music here mentioned were not used in the worship of God till David's time, it is most probable that it was composed by him; and that not so much to commemorate the creation; and the Sabbath which followed it, as to foretel that rest from persecution which God had promised to give his church under the Messiah. See Dr. Hammond. Dr. Delaney is of opinion, that this psalm was written in the interval between the first Philistine defeat, and their second invasion, (see book 2: chap. 9.) upon their confederating anew, and gathering together to a second attempt against him. "To this, (says he,) I apprehend, refer those words in the 7th verse, When the wicked spring up as grass. He had just mowed down his enemies, and they were now springing up again, like a new crop of grass from a rich field; but, how flourishing soever these workers of iniquity were, David fully confided that they should soon be destroyed for ever. The glory of sinners is, at best, but the flower of a withering grass: But the righteous (Psalms 92:12.) shall flourish like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon; which, at the same time that it enlarges upon earth, rises towards heaven."