“Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.”
The final assertion that with God the people will triumph and that God will tread down enemies establishes the conclusive confidence that undergirds the entire psalm. The declaration that God will tread down enemies invokes the imagery from the oracle: God personally will accomplish the subjugation of the nation's enemies. The final word of the psalm is not lament but confidence in divine action and ultimate victory. This verse transforms the psalm from lament through petition into affirmation of trust in God's ultimate purposes and power to restore the people from defeat to triumph.
Church Fathers on Psalms 60:12
1. David the king was one man, but not one man he figured; sometimes to wit he figured the Church of many men consisting, extended even unto the ends of the earth: but sometimes One Man he figured, Him he figured that is Mediator of God and men, the Man Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 2:5 In this Psalm therefore, or rather in this Psalm's title, certain victorious actions of David are spoken of:...“To the end, in behalf of those men that shall be changed unto the title's inscription,…
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