“I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.”
The affirmation that the psalmist will be glad and exult in God and sing praise to His name expresses the emotional dimensions of thanksgiving. The progression from gladness to exultation suggests intensifying joy, making praise an expression of escalating delight in God. The mention of name suggests that praise addresses God in His actual being and identity rather than abstract properties, making thanksgiving relational and personal. This verse articulates the embodied and emotional character of genuine praise, suggesting that authentic thanksgiving engages the whole person in celebratory response.
Church Fathers on Psalms 9:2
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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