Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 22:3

3. But thou art holy , O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel .

(i. e.) Just and true in all thy ways, and therefore hearing Prayers, and keeping thy Covenant, a true Lover of Holyness, and of all holy Men. This he adds Either, 1. To aggravate his Misery, that such a God should neglect and forsake him. Or rather, 2. To strengthen his Faith, and to enforce his Prayers, and prevail with God for the Honour of his holy Name, to hear and help him.

Either, 1. That dwellest in thy Tabernacle and Ark, which is called Israel's glory, 1 Sam. 4. 21. and the place where God was praised, Isa. 64. 11. Or 2. That receivest and rightly possessest the praises of Israel, whom thy People are perpetually praising for one Mercy or another; and therefore I trust, I also shall have occasion to praise thee. But because this Hebrew Verb when it is used Transitively, and is taken for inhabiting is generally, as far as I have observed. Construed with a Preposition, which here it is not, this Verse may seem to be better rendred thus, as it is by divers Learned men. B[illegible: 1+ letters] thou abidest, or preseverest, or Continuest to be (as this Verb is used, Psal. 9. 7. and 55. 19. and 102. 12.) Holy, (notwithstanding thy present neglect of my Prayers and M[illegible: 1+ letters]series) O the praises, Or, O thou who art the praises (Or, and the praises, (i. e.) the great Cause and Object of the praises) of Israel, (i. e.) whom Israel solemnly and usually praiseth, Deut. 10. 21. Ier. 17. 14.