Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 32:7

"Thou art my hiding-place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah" — Psalms 32:7 (ASV)

You are my hiding place – See Psalms 9:9, note, and Psalms 27:5, note. The idea is that he would be safe under the protection of God. The general allusion is to concealment from an enemy, but the immediate reference is to sin and the consequences of sin. By fleeing to God, he would be secure against all the evils that sin brings upon human beings.

You will preserve me from trouble – This refers particularly to the trouble that comes from guilt: sadness and sorrow in the remembrance of sin, apprehension of the wrath of God in the world to come, and the consequences of guilt in that unseen and eternal world.

You will surround me with songs of deliverance – This means with songs expressive of deliverance or salvation. It is not merely one song or a single expression of gratitude; in his pathway to another world, he will be attended with songs and rejoicings.

He will seem to be surrounded with songs He himself will sing. Others, redeemed like him, will sing and will seem to chant praises because He is redeemed and forgiven.

All nature will seem to rejoice over his redemption. Nature is full of songs. The birds of the air; the wind; the running stream; the ocean; the seasons—spring, summer, autumn, winter; hills, valleys, groves—all, to one redeemed, seem to be full of songs.

The feeling that we are pardoned fills the universe with melody and makes heaven and earth seem glad to us.

The Christian is a happy man; and, he himself being happy, all around him sympathizes with him in his joy.