4 Jehovah, all the kings of the earth shall thank Thee, When they have heard the words of Thy mouth. 5 And they shall sing of the ways of Jehovah, For great is the glory of Jehovah. 6 For Jehovah is high, and the lowly He regards, And the lofty from afar off He knows. 7 If I walk in the midst of trouble Thou wilt revive me, Against the wrath of mine enemies Thou wilt stretch forth Thy hand, And Thy right hand shall save me. 8 Jehovah will complete [all] that concerns me; Jehovah, Thy loving-kindness [endures] for ever; The works of Thy hands abandon not. This is the first of a group of eight psalms attributed to David in the superscriptions. It precedes the closing hallelujah psalms, and thus stands where a "find" of Davidic psalms at a late date would naturally be put. In some cases, there is no improbability in the assigned authorship; and this psalm is certainly singularly unlike those which precede it, and has many affinities with the earlier psalms ascribed to David. In reading it, one feels the return to familiar thoughts and tones. The fragrance it exhales wakes memories of former songs. But the resemblance may be due to the imitative habit so marked in the last book of the Psalter. If it is a late psalm, the speaker is probably the personified Israel, and the deliverance which seems to the singer to have transcended all previous manifestations of the Divine name is the Restoration, which has inspired so many of the preceding psalms. The supporters of the Davidic authorship, on the other hand, point to the promise to David by Nathan of the perpetuity of the kinghood in his line, as the occasion of the psalmist's triumph. The structure of the psalm is simple. It falls into three parts, of which the two former consist of three verses each, and the last of two. In the first, the singer vows praise and recounts God's wondrous dealings with him (vv. 1-3); in the second, he looks out over all the earth in the confidence that these blessings, when known, will bring the world to worship (vv. 4-6); and in the third, he pleads for the completion to himself of mercies begun (vv. 7, 8).