God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
Ver. 8. God reigneth over the heathen] This is his universal kingdom, whereof before, Psalms 47:7, and yet never can too much be said of it.
God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness] He is in a special manner King of his Church, as Ahasuerus was of his Esther, called his throne, Exodus 17:16 (because the hand upon the throne of the Lord, that is, Amalek's hand upon the Church, as some interpret it). His throne of glory, Jeremiah 14:21; and here the throne of his holiness, because Christ (who is called God so many times in this psalm) loved the Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it, and so present it to himself a glorious Church, Ephesians 5:25,27 .