“Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?”
The affirmation that the psalmist will sing of God's power and celebrate God's steadfast love in the morning establishes the resolution to respond to the perpetual threat with perpetual praise. The reference to the morning suggests that the psalmist will begin each day (a period of vulnerability) with worship rather than with fear. The commitment to sing of God's strength indicates that worship becomes the response to threat; the mouth will be directed toward God's praise rather than toward lamentation. This verse articulates the paradox of the psalm: vulnerability paired with the commitment to worship.
Church Fathers on Psalms 59:7
The First Part. 1. As the Scripture is wont to set mysteries of the Psalms on the titles, and to deck the brow of a Psalm with the high announcement of a Mystery, in order that we that are about to go in may know (when as it were upon the door-post we have read what within is doing) either of whom the house is, or who is the owner of that estate: so also in this Psalm there has been written a title, of a title. For it has, “At the end, corrupt not for David himself unto the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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