“I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.”
The vow to praise God's name in song and magnify it with thanksgiving articulates the commitment to respond to deliverance with worship. The reference to song and thanksgiving indicates vocal and enthusiastic response. This verse indicates the psalmist's resolve to worship if rescue comes.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:30
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed has spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, has leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: Genesis 9:19 for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, Matthew 8:11 while those shall have been…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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