A psalm of David.
24:1 The Lord owns the earth and all it contains,
the world and all who live in it.
55:10 Day and night they walk around on its walls, 2
while wickedness and destruction 3 are within it.
98:7 Let the sea and everything in it shout,
along with the world and those who live in it!
1 sn Psalm 24. The psalmist affirms the universal kingship of the sovereign creator, reminds his people that only the morally pure are qualified to worship him, and celebrates his splendor as a mighty warrior king.
2 tn Heb “day and night they surround it, upon its walls.” Personified “violence and conflict” are the likely subjects. They are compared to watchmen on the city’s walls.
3 sn Wickedness and destruction. These terms are also closely associated in Ps 7:14.