“I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.”
This psalm of thanksgiving opens with declaration to praise God with whole heart and tell all His wondrous deeds, establishing thanksgiving as comprehensive response to divine action. The whole heart suggests complete emotional and spiritual engagement, making praise not perfunctory obligation but passionate expression. The announcement that the psalmist will tell God's wonders establishes the purpose of praise as proclamation to the community, making individual gratitude become public testimony. The opening establishes the psalm's fundamental conviction that God's mighty acts merit and require comprehensive human response.
Church Fathers on Psalms 9:1
1. The inscription of this Psalm is, “To the end for the hidden things of the Son, a Psalm of David himself.” As to the hidden things of the Son there may be a question: but since he has not added whose, the very only-begotten Son of God should be understood. For where a Psalm has been inscribed of the son of David, “When,” he says, “he fled from the face of Absalom his son;” although his name even was mentioned, and therefore there could be no obscurity as to whom it was…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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