Psalms 24:1-7

1 God claims Earth and everything in it, God claims World and all who live on it.

2 He built it on Ocean foundations, laid it out on River girders.

3 Who can climb Mount God? Who can scale the holy north-face?

4 Only the clean-handed, only the pure-hearted; Men who won't cheat, women who won't seduce.

5 God is at their side; with God's help they make it.

6 This, Jacob, is what happens to God-seekers, God-questers.

7 Wake up, you sleepyhead city! Wake up, you sleepyhead people! King-Glory is ready to enter.

Psalms 24:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 24

\\<>\\. This psalm is thought by some of the Jewish writers {d} to have been wrote when the ark was brought from the house of Obededom to the city of David, and put into the place prepared for it by him, 2Sa 6:17; to which reference is supposed to be had in Ps 24:7-10; or after that David had built an altar in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, and had knowledge of the hill Moriah, as the place where the sanctuary was to be built; called the hill of the Lord, and his holy place, Ps 24:3; however, it was certainly written by David, under the inspiration of the spirit of God; and is a prophecy of Christ, and of the Gospel church, and describes the members of it. {d} Aben Ezra & Kimchi.