Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 89:15

15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound : they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance .

The Psalmist intending to describe the doleful estate of the Royal Family and Kingdom of Israel, aggravates it by the consideration of their former felicity.

i. e. Who enjoy the presence of God and his Ordinances, and the tokens of his grace and mercy to them, to which they were called and invited by the sound of Trumpets, which upon that onely reason was very pleasant and grateful to the Israelites. See Numb. 10. 9, 10. So the sign is put for the thing signified, as is manifest both from the following clause of the Verse, and because otherwise the hearing of the outward sound of Trumpets could never make them blessed.

They shall live under the comfortable influences of thy grace and favour; whereof at present we are bereaved.

Marginal references: Numb. 10. 6[illegible: 1+ letters] Psal. 33. 10. Psal. 27. 6.