“The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.”
The reference to the humble seeing and being glad and hearts reviving when God is sought establishes that the deliverance of the afflicted becomes an occasion for joy in the community. The revival of hearts suggests that witnessing God's care for the helpless renews confidence in all who observe. This verse extends the significance of the psalmist's rescue: it becomes a cause for corporate joy.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:32
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…
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