EXPOSITION
THIS psalm is entitled, "a Psalm or Song for the sabbath day," and was therefore, we may conclude, intended for liturgical use in the temple on that weekly festival. Jewish tradition says that it was sung in the morning at the time of the drink offering of the first lamb. It was also, we are told, recited on the second day of the Feast of Tabernacles ('Middoth,' Psalms 2:5). The psalm is altogether one of praise and thanksgiving. It is optimistic, looking forward to the complete destruction of all God's enemies (Psalms 92:7-9), and the complete triumph and happiness of his faithful ones (Psalms 92:10-14). Some Jewish commentators viewed it as descriptive of the final sabbath of the world's rest; and so Athanasius, who says of the author, αἰνεῖ ἐκείνην τὴν γενησομένην ἀνάπαυσιν.
Metrically, the psalm seems to divide into three portions, the first and second of four verses each (Psalms 92:1-4, Psalms 92:5-8), the third of seven verses (Psalms 92:9-15).