being addressed in the psalm is always in the singular. In v. 5 the righteous ones are finally named. There at last is a positive plural “community” that counterbalances the threatening community which is composed of the wicked. It is as if the solitary person of v. 1, having avoided the company of the wicked and taken refuge in the torah of the Lord, has finally found a home and community. There is a third element of poetic delay in stanza 3. God—the “proper subject” of all theology—finally is named
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