9 Who holdeth our soul in life, And suffereth not our feet to be moved.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he that cannot keep his soul alive.
He only is my rock and my salvation: `He is' my high tower; I shall not be greatly moved.
When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
For he shall never be moved; The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.
for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, `who is' our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.
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Commentary on Psalms 66 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 66
This is a thanksgiving-psalm, and it is of such a general use and application that we need not suppose it penned upon any particular occasion. All people are here called upon to praise God,
If we have learned in every thing to give thanks for ancient and modern mercies, public and personal mercies, we shall know how to sing this psalm with grace and understanding.
To the chief musician. A song or psalm.
Psa 66:1-7
Psa 66:8-12
In these verses the psalmist calls upon God's people in a special manner to praise him. Let all lands do it, but Israel's land particularly. Bless our God; bless him as ours, a God in covenant with us, and that takes care of us as his own. Let them make the voice of his praise to be heard (v. 8); for from whom should it be heard but from those who are his peculiar favourites and select attendants? Two things we have reason to bless God for:-
Psa 66:13-20
The psalmist, having before stirred up all people, and all God's people in particular, to bless the Lord, here stirs up himself and engages himself to do it.