od: for there is none like
Thee, neither is there any God besides Thee, according to all that we
have heard with our ears._"

_Wherefore_--in the first instance, on account of the great things
which Thou hast done unto me. _According to all_, etc., _i.e._, as this
is confirmed by all, etc. Of this David has been reminded anew by his
personal experience. Just as he does here, David, in Ps. xl. 6, rises
from his personal experience to the whole series of God's glorious
manifestations in the history of His people. As to the words, "There is
none like Thee, neither is there any God besides Thee," compare the
fundamental passages Exod. xv. 11; Deut. iii. 24, iv. 35.

Ver. 23. "_And where is there a nation on earth like Thy people Israel,
for whose sake God went to redeem them for a people to Himself, and
make Him a name, and to do for you great things, and terrible things
for Thy land, putting away from before Thy people, whom Thou redeemedst
to Thee out of Egypt, heathen and their gods?_"

We must here compare the fundamental passages, Deut. iv. 7, 34, xxxiii.
29, in which that which Israel has received from his God is praised, as
being without precedent and parallel. In [Hebrew: lkM] and [Hebrew:
larcK] the address is, with poetical liveliness, directed to Israel.
_For you great things_--instead of, To do for them great things, as the
Lord has done for you. The phrase [Hebrew: mpni emK] means, literally,
only, "away from before Thy people;" "putting" must be supplied from
the preceding [Hebrew: lewit], and from a comparison of the fundamental
passages, Exod. xxiii. 28, 29, xxxiv. 11; Deut. xxxiii. 27, to which
the concise expression refers. The text in Chronicles, which expressly
adds what we have here to supply, [Hebrew: lgrw mpni], "to drive out
before," is, in this case also, merely a parallel passage which, by the
addition of a word, serves as a commentary.

Ver. 24. "_And Thou hast confirmed to Thyself Thy people_ [Pg 147]
_Israel to be a people for ever, and Thou, Lord, art become their
God._"

Ver. 25. "_And now, Jehovah God, the word that Thou hast spoken
concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for
ever, and do as Thou hast said._"

Praise and thanks for the promise are followed by the prayer for its
fulfilment.

Ver. 26. "_And let Thy name be magnified for ever, so that it may be
said, Jehovah Zebaoth_ (is) _God over Israel. And the house of Thy
servant shall be firm before Thee._"