“Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.”
The command that those who seek God be glad and rejoice establishes that the proper response to the possibility of divine aid is joyful celebration. The reference to those seeking God indicates that the desire for divine help characterizes the righteous. The love for God's salvation indicates that deliverance from God is the ultimate good. This verse establishes the proper emotional and spiritual stance of those waiting for divine response.
Church Fathers on Psalms 70:4
1. Thanks to the “Grain of wheat,” because He willed to die and to be multiplied: thanks to the only Son of God, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who disdained not to undergo our death, in order that He might make us worthy of His life. Behold Him that was single until He went hence; as He said in another Psalm, “Single I am until I go hence;” for He was a single grain of wheat in such sort as that He had in Himself a great fruitfulness of increase; in how many corns…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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