Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem
The inhabitants of it, as Kimchi; not Jerusalem in a literal
sense, for this respects future time, as Aben Ezra; the world to
come, the times of the Messiah: and intends the spiritual
Jerusalem, as Arama; that which is free, the mother of us all;
the Gospel church, and the members of it; which have great reason
to praise the Lord, for their special blessings and peculiar
privileges; see ( Galatians
4:26 Galatians
4:27 ) ( Hebrews
12:22 Hebrews
12:23 ) ; praise thy God, O Zion;
not the house and family of David, as R. Obadiah; nor the priests
and Levites in the temple, as others; but the same as before, the
church and people of God; the Mount Zion God has loved and chose
for his habitation; the city of our solemnities in Gospel times;
the perfection of beauty and joy of the whole earth; whose God
and King is Christ; and whom Zion and all her children should
praise, being her incarnate God, Immanuel, God manifest in the
flesh. With this verse, the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac,
Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, begin the psalm.