Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
I will praise the Lord with my whole heart - If we profess to "sing to the praise and glory of God," the heart, and the whole heart, without division and distraction, must be employed in the work.
In the assembly - besod , in the secret assembly - the private religious meetings for the communion of saints. And in the congregation, edah , the general assembly - the public congregation. There were such meetings as the former ever since God had a Church on the earth; and to convey general information, there must be public assemblies.
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