“My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.”
The affirmation that the psalmist's heart is steadfast and ready to sing and make melody establishes a radical internal transformation: despite external threat, the psalmist's interior orientation is toward praise and trust. The reference to the heart being fixed on God indicates that the fundamental stance is one of orientation toward the divine regardless of circumstances. The determination to sing and make melody suggests that worship is the psalmist's response to the combination of threat and trust; praise becomes the ultimate weapon. This verse articulates the paradox of the psalm: vulnerability coupled with steadfast confidence, fear coupled with readiness to praise.
Church Fathers on Psalms 57:7
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,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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