Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
Exalt ye the Lord our God - (Psalms 34:3 .) and worship at his footstool - the ark of the covenant, which Yahweh, sitting upon the cherubim, as it were touched with His feet (1 Cor. 28:2; Psalms 132:7; Lamentations 2:1). Not as the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic versions, 'worship His footstool,' which, unless taken figuratively (as Isaiah 45:14, where Zion is said to worshipped), gives seeming countenance to that which God is the second commandment so sternly forbids-the bowing down to any image or creature. But translate either as the Chaldaic Targum explains the Hebrew lª- 'IN His sanctuary,' and as the Vulgate, and Ethiopic take it in Psalms 99:9, 'in, His holy mount;' or as the Septuagint take it in Psalms 99:9, 'TOWARDS His holy mount.' So here in Psalms 99:5, 'worship toward His footstool,' as it was the custom to turn toward the temple in prayer. So the similar Hebrew х 'el (H413)], Psalms 5:7; Psalms 138:2; 1 Kings 8:44; Daniel 6:10.
(For) he (is) holy. So the Septuagint, Ethiopic, Chaldaic, and Syria. "He" here corresponds to 'His name' (Psalms 99:3), "the Lord our God" (Psalms 99:9), which sets aside the Vulgate translation 'IT is holy,' quoted by Rome in support of her veneration of, and bowing down before, images. Compare Psalms 96:9; Psalms 97:7; Leviticus 19:2.