“My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.”
The declaration that the mouth will tell of God's righteousness and salvation all day articulates the commitment to continuous witness and testimony. The reference to righteous deeds the psalmist has not counted indicates the abundance of divine blessing beyond human calculation. This verse establishes that the psalmist will be a perpetual witness to God's faithfulness.
Church Fathers on Psalms 71:15
1. In all the holy Scriptures the grace of God that delivers us commends itself to us, in order that it may have us commended. This is sung of in this Psalm, whereof we have undertaken to speak....This grace the Apostle commends: by this he got to have the Jews for enemies, boasting of the letter of the law and of their own justice. This then commending in the lesson which has been read, he says thus: “For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not worthy to be called an…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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