translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET study note

text: . The psalmist thanks God for his deliverance and urges others to join him in praise.


text: The reference to an attack by the nations suggests the psalmist may have been a military leader.


text: A petition for deliverance and success seems odd in a psalm thanking God for deliverance, but it is not unique (see Ps 9:19-20 ). The people ask God to continue to intervene for them as he has for the psalmist.


text: The people refer here to the psalmist, who enters the Lord ’s temple to thank him publicly (see vv. 19-21 ), as the one who comes in the name of the Lord .


text: You are my God . The psalmist speaks again (see v. 21 ), responding to the words of the worshipers (vv. 22-27 ).