“Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.”
The final petition that God be exalted above the heavens repeats the earlier prayer for divine exaltation, creating a kind of frame around the psalm and establishing this as the ultimate goal and desire. The addition of "over all the earth" emphasizes the completeness and universality of the desired divine sovereignty: God's rule should be acknowledged everywhere and by all creation. The placement of this petition at the close suggests that the entire psalm is oriented toward this ultimate prayer: that God's supremacy be made manifest. This verse closes the psalm with the reassertion of its fundamental theological orientation toward the exaltation and manifestation of God's sovereignty.
Church Fathers on Psalms 57:11
1. We have heard in the Gospel just now, brethren, how loves us our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, God with the Father, Man with us, out of our own selves, now at the right hand of the Father; you have heard how much He loves us.... 2. Because then this Psalm is singing of the Passion of the Lord, see what is the title that it has: “at the end.” The end is Christ. Romans 10:4 Why has He been called end? Not as one that consumes, but one that consummates. 3. “At the end,…
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