#Psalm consists of three strophes in which series#
The Psalm is the inverse of “repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” Isaiah 3-5, “the kingdom of heaven is at hand, therefore repent,” an old testament, “with zeal ye sons of men.” Among the series of Psalms, Psalms 91-100, it is most closely connected with Psalms 95. We then obtain, whether the two ruling verses are added or not, 14 verses or 12 three strophes of four verses, or seven half-strophes of two.
#Psalm consists of three strophes in which full#
The full insight into the formal arrangement of the Psalm is got when the following Psalm, which forms with it one pair, is added to it. That these strophes again fall into half strophes, each containing a pair of verses, is evident from the circumstance that the “he is holy,” which occurs three times after the example of the original passage in Isaiah 6, besides being at the end of the two strophes, stands also in the middle of the first, and divides its two halves from each other. If we separate Psalms 99:1 as containing the theme, the Psalm consists of two strophes, each of four verses, which are manifestly distinguished from each other by “exalt the Lord our God,” &c., in Psalms 99:5 and Psalms 99:9. He points in Psalms 99:6-9 to the means which secure a participation in the blessings of the future, the dangers which threaten this participation: heartfelt trust in the Lord, and obedience to his commandments, are as the history of antiquity, the example of Moses, Aaron, and Samuel, show the way to salvation, from which sin excludes, while it brings into the domain of an avenging God -and concludes with a renewed exhortation devoutly to praise the Lord, who appears great and awful no less in effecting the salvation itself, than in appointing the conditions connected with its enjoyment. The Psalm begins in Psalms 99:1 with the joyful cry, “the Lord reigneth,” depicts in Psalms 99:2-5 how the appearing in his kingdom delivers his people from the state of oppression in which they had hitherto been, and exhorts them to praise devoutly the Lord from whom such glorious things, are to be expected.
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