Psalms 99:5 - Exposition

Exalt ye the Lord our God (comp. Psalms 99:9 ; and see also Psalms 118:20 and Isaiah 25:1 ). And worship at his footstool. The "footstool of God" is everywhere (except in Isaiah 66:1 ) the ark of the covenant, which he that sat upon the cherubim touched, as it were, with his feet (see 1 Chronicles 28:2 ; Psalms 132:7 ; Lamentations 2:1 ; Isaiah 60:13 ). Israel is called upon to worship God as he sits in his holy temple, enthroned above the cherubim, with his feet upon the mercy seat. For he is holy; rather, as in Psalms 99:3 , holy is he.