Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. Sing aloud unto God our strength ] There is much meaning here: as God is our strength, let that strength be devoted to his service; therefore, sing aloud! This is principally addressed to the priests and Levites.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his excellences and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption from sin an wrath. What God had done on Israel's behalf, was kept in remembrance by public solemnities. To make a deliverance appear more gracious, mor glorious, it is good to observe all that makes the trouble we ar delivered from appear more grievous. We ought never to forget the bas and ruinous drudgery to which Satan, our oppressor, brought us. But when, in distress of conscience, we are led to cry for deliverance, the Lord answers our prayers, and sets us at liberty. Convictions of sin and trials by affliction, prove his regard to his people. If the Jews on their solemn feast-days, were thus to call to mind their redemptio out of Egypt, much more ought we, on the Christian sabbath, to call to mind a more glorious redemption, wrought out for us by our Lord Jesu Christ, from worse bondage.
Original Hebrew למנצח5329 על5921 הגתית1665 לאסף׃623 (81:2) הרנינו7442 לאלהים430 עוזנו5797 הריעו7321 לאלהי430 יעקב׃3290
