Exalt the Lord our God,.... Having given the above instances of Moses, Aaron, and Samuel, serving and worshipping the Lord, the psalmist repeats the exhortation in Ps 99:5, which he enforces by their example; See Gill on "Ps 99:5":and worship at his holy hill; the holy hill of Zion, the church; attend the public worship and service of it: the Targum is,"worship at the mountain of the house of his sanctuary; the temple, a type of the church of Christ:''for the Lord our God is holy; his nature is holy, and he is glorious in the perfection of his holiness, and therefore to be praised and exalted; and his name is holy, and so reverend, and therefore to be worshipped; see in Ps 99:3.
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Psalms 99:9
Psalms 99:9
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