Verse 4
4. I will abide in thy tabernacle The figure changes from a rock or fortress to a tabernacle, in itself an emblem of transitoriness and frailty; but the idea of security is still preserved. The allusion is to the “tabernacle” in the wilderness (“ thy tabernacle”) which, like the tent of the chief in a military encampment, is the place of honour, authority, and safety. During the march through the wilderness the tabernacle was placed in the center of the camp, surrounded first by eight thousand five hundred Levites, in the form of a square, and beyond those, in the same form, by the entire population of the tribes, including over six hundred thousand warriors. See on Numbers 2:0. Thus the tent of Jehovah was the throne of power, in the midst of the people. The allusion is not uncommon. See on Psalms 27:5; Psalms 31:20; Psalms 32:7; Psalms 91:1.
Trust in the covert of thy wings The wings of the cherubim in the holy of holies in the “tabernacle.” Exodus 25:18-22; Psalms 57:1
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