5:7 abundance of your steadfast love. The writer knows that he is different from the wicked only because of God’s grace. His own sin would destroy him if God did not have compassion on him as he approached God’s presence.

will enter your house. The psalmist protests his innocence by stating his desire to worship the Lord. “your house” and “your holy temple” may refer to the site where the temple would be built, or perhaps the tabernacle of the psalmist’s own time (1 Sam. 1:9).