1. I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart;
I will show forth all thy marvellous works.
2. I will be glad and exult in thee;
I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

 1-9, 20, 21. Thanksgivings and joy of the Lord, that the
evil have been judged and destroyed. P. P.

 3. When mine enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish at thy presence.
4. For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;
Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.

 3. See Psalm vii. 18. A. 8153.

 5. Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed
the wicked;
Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

5-8, 18. Quoted from Zechariah xiv. part of verses 1-7.
D. P., Page 71.

 6. The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for
ever;
And the cities which thou hast overthrown,
The very remembrance of them is perished.

 5-9, 18. Of the last judgment. - D. P., Page 71.
The judgment described. D. P., Page 72.
5-9, 18. Of the last judgment. - D. P., Page 71.
The judgment described. D. P., Page 72.

 7. But Jehovah sitteth as king for ever:
He hath prepared his throne for judgment;

5, 6, 8. A throne signifies heaven. A throne also signifies
judgment — see Matthew xxv. 31, etc. R. 229.
That by throne is here signified heaven is evident, for
it is said that heaven is Jehovah's throne that he hath prepared
in the heavens, and that he who shall swear by
heaven sweareth by the throne of God. Not that Jehovah
or the Lord there sits upon a throne, but because throne
is predicated of His Divine in the heavens, and it also
occasionally appears as a throne to those to whom it is
given to look into heaven. That the Lord was thus seen
appears in Isaiah vi. 1. E. 253.

5, 8. A throne is often mentioned in the Word where the
subject is the Divine truth and judgment therefrom.
A. 5313-

 8. And he will judge the world in righteousness,
He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

 5, 8, 9. See Psalm vii. 8, 9. A. 9857.
8. As Jehovah, that is the Lord, is the very Esse of the life
of all therefore to sit (endure) is predicated of Him in
various parts of the Word. See also Psalm i. 1. E. 687.

 9. Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed,
A high tower in times of trouble;
10. And they that know thy name will put their trust in
thee;
For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek
thee.
11. Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion:
Declare among the people his doings.
12. For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth
them;
He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

9. By the world the church is signified, in like manner as
by earth, but it is to be known that when the world and
the church are named together, the church as to good is
signified by the world, and the church as to truth by the
earth. R. 551.

Inasmuch as by the world is understood the church as
to good, and justice is predicated of good, therefore it is
said: Jehovah shall judge the world in justice, and inasmuch
as people are called they who are in truth, and uprightness
is truth, therefore it was said: He shall judge
the people in uprightness. E. 741.

10. 11. And the good have been delivered. P. P

 13. Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah;
Behold my affliction which I suffer of them that hate
me,
Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

 14. That by death is signified spiritual death or damnation
is evident from very many passages in the Word. A. 61 19.
By the dead they are signified who are destitute of the
life of heaven, consequently who are in evils and thence in
falsities. E. 186.

 14. That I may show forth all thy praise.
In the gates of the daughter of Zion
I will rejoice in thy salvation.

 15. That the celestial church, or the Lord's celestial kingdom
is called the daughter of Zion from affection for good,
or from love to the Lord himself, may be seen in Isaiah x.
32; xvi. 1: Jeremiah iv. 31: Micah iv. 10, 13: etc.
A. 2362.

In many places we read of the virgin, and the daughter
of Zion, by whom is not meant any virgin or daughter
there, but the church as to the affection of good and truth,
the same as by the Bride of the Lamb in Revelation
xxi. 2, 9; xxii. 17. R# 612.

Knowledges of truth and good are signified by gates.
Gates signify introductory truths which are knowledges
from the Word. R. 800.

By doors and by gates is signified admission. Specifically
introductory truths are signified, which are truths
from good derived from the Lord. E. 208.

By the daughter of Zion is signified the spiritual affection
of Divine truth, which is the love of truth for the sake of
truth, and the desire thereof for the sake of the uses of
eternal life. E. 850.

 15. The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made:
In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16. Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed
judgment:
The wicked is snared in the wrork of his own hands.
[Higgaion. Selah
17. The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol,
Even all the nations that forget God.

 16-18. And thanksgiving of the latter, that the evil have
been conquered and cast into hell. P. P.

 18. For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
Nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.
19. Arise, O Jehovah; let not man prevail:
Let the nations be judged in thy sight.
20. Put them in fear, O Jehovah:
Let the nations know themselves to be but men.
[Selah

 19. By the miserable and the poor are chiefly meant those
who are not in the knowledges of truth and good, and yet
desire them, since by the rich are meant those who possess
the knowledges of truth and good. R. 209.

The reason why both the miserable and the poor are
mentioned is, because it is according to the style of the
Word that where truth is treated of, good is also treated of,
and in the opposite sense where what is false is treated of,
evil is also treated of, since they form a one and are as a
marriage. On this account the miserable and the poor
are mentioned together, for by the miserable are understood
those who are deficient in the knowledges of truth,
and by the poor those who are deficient in the knowledges
of good. E. 238.

Author: EMANUEL SWEDENBORG (1688-1772)