Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Ver. 2. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty] Heb. the whole perfection, or the universality of beauty, Perfectissimae pulchritudinis locus (Trem.); because there especially was God's glory set forth in his holy ordinances, and more clearly manifested than in all his handiwork besides. See Psalms 48:2 .
God hath shined] Like the sun in his strength, sometimes for the comfort of his people, as Psalms 80:1; sometimes for the terror of evildoers, as Psalms 94:1, and here. But evermore God is terrible out of his holy places, Psalms 68:35; Psalms 89:7 .