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 26 From Thee Cometh my praise in the great congregation — My vows will I pay before them that fear Him.

27 The meek shall eat and be satisfied, They shall praise Jahve that seek Him: "Let your heart refresh itself for everl"

28 Remember and turn unto Jahve shall all the ends of

the earth, And all the families of the nations shall bow down before Thee.

29 For Jahve's is the kingship, and He ruleth among the

nations.

30 All the thriving of the earth shall eat and bow down, Before Him shall all they that go down to the dust sink

down and they that cannot prolong their life.

31 A seed shall serve Him: it shall be told to the generation

concerning the Lord;

32 They shall come and declare His righteousness to a

future people, that He hath finished it. We have here a plaintive Psalm, whose deep complaints, out of the midst of the most humiliating degradation and most fearful peril, stand in striking contrast to the cheerful tone of Psa 21:1-13 - starting with a disconsolate cry of anguish, it passes on to a trustful cry for help, and ends in vows of thanksgiving and a vision of world-wide results, which spring from the deliverance of the sufferer. In no Psalm do we trace such an accumulation of the most excruciating outward and inward suffering pressing upon the complainant, in connection the most perfect innocence. In this respect Ps 69 is its counterpart; but it differs from it in this particular, that there is not a single sound of imprecation mingled with its complaints. It is David, who here struggles upward out of the gloomiest depth to such a bright height. It is a Davidic Psalm belonging to the time of the persecution by Saul. Ewald brings it down to the time preceding the d