“I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.”
The vow to praise with a harp and declare God's faithfulness articulates the musical and vocal response to deliverance. The reference to the Holy One of Israel indicates the God whose character is wholly other and transcendent. This verse commits to worship of the God whose faithfulness will be demonstrated through rescue.
Church Fathers on Psalms 71:22
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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