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54. songs--As the exile sings songs of his home
(Ps 137:3),
so the child of God, "a stranger on earth," sings the songs of heaven,
his true home
(Ps 39:12).
In ancient times, laws were put in verse, to imprint them the more on
the memory of the people. So God's laws are the believer's songs.
house of my pilgrimage--present life
(Ge 17:8; 47:9;
Heb 11:13).
JFB.
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