Psalms 99:3,4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let them, &c.— They shall praise, they shall do homage to thy great and terrible name, because it is holy: Green adds, and powerful, from the next verse, which he renders thus: The king loveth judgment: But Mudge renders it, Though the king be strong he loveth judgment: And he observes, that the latter part of the verse refers to the body of laws which God had given at Sinai. Dr. Delaney supposes, that as this psalm was composed when David was settled in his kingdom, so this verse particularly refers to his executing judgment and justice unto all his people. Whoever peruses the psalm will find, that David here, as every where else, considers God as the king of Israel, and himself only as his deputy. To this purpose are these expressions in the beginning of it: The Lord reigneth:—the Lord is great in Zion. It is true, David delighted to exert all the power which God had given him to its true purposes: The king's strength loveth judgment; but it was in reality God who executed them all. Thou dost establish, &c. Then follows the one inference always drawn from every position of David's, that God is ever to be worshipped and glorified: Psalms 99:5. Exalt ye the Lord, &c. Life of David, b. 3: Psalms 100:4.