Psalms 26:12
My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the LORD.
BSB
ASV
My foot standeth in an even place: In the congregations will I bless Jehovah.
KJV
My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the Lord.
The song began in the minor, but it has now reached the major key. Saints often sing themselves into happiness. The even place upon which our foot stands is the sure, covenant faithfulness, eternal promise and immutable oath of the Lord of Hosts; there is no fear of falling from this solid basis, or of its being removed from under us. Established in Christ Jesus, by being vitally united to him, we have nothing left to occupy our thoughts but the praises of our God.
Standeth - I stand upon a sure and solid foundation, being under the protection of God's promise, and his almighty and watchful providence. Congregations - I will not only privately, but in the assemblies of thy people celebrate thy praise.
The learned Amyraldus, in his argument of his psalm, suggests that David is here, by the spirit of prophecy, carried out to speak of himself as a type of Christ, of whom what he here says of his spotless innocence, was fully and eminently true, and of him only, and to him we may apply it in singing this psalm. "We are complete in him." Devout Appeals.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 40:2He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
leads to
The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Through
Psalms 27:11Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.
leads to
Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.