“I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.”
Gratitude is promised: "I give you thanks, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever." The commitment to perpetual thanksgiving and glorification becomes the response to divine instruction. The "whole heart" matches the earlier petition for undivided devotion.
Church Fathers on Psalms 86:12
1. No greater gift could God have given to men than in making His Word, by which He created all things, their Head, and joining them to Him as His members: that the Son of God might become also the Son of man, one God with the Father, one Man with men; so that when we speak to God in prayer for mercy, we do not separate the Son from Him; and when the Body of the Son prays, it separates not its Head from itself: and it is one Saviour of His Body, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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