The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 92:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn; rather, of a wild ox. The Hebrew, like the Assyrian, reym, is certainly a species of wild cattle, whether the aurochs, or the bison, or the buffalo, may be doubted.

The psalmist speaks in the name of Israel, or of God's faithful ones generally, and confidently predicts their exaltation to glory and honour simultaneously with the destruction of God's enemies. I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Oil was supposed to give vigour to the frame; and "fresh oil," or "green oil," would be the most efficient and the best.

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