Psalms 68:25

“I have been young, and [now] am old, etc.] The psalmist makes mention of his age, which takes in the whole compass of his life, to command attention to what he was about to say; which was founded upon a long experience and observation of things, and was as follows; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken; though afflicted of God, and persecuted by men, yet not forsaken; though poor and needy, and often in necessitous circumstances, yet God in his providence appeared for them in one way or another; and so as Apollinarius paraphrases it, “I never knew a just man entirely needy;” for such might be forsaken by men, and even by their dearest friends and relations, yet not by the Lord: they…”

“The singers went before - That is, in the removal of the ark; in the solemn procession referred to in the previous verse. “In” that procession those who sang preceded those who performed on instruments of music. Compare 1 Chronicles 13:8; 1 Chronicles 15:16. “The players on instruments followed after.” The different classes of performers would naturally be ranged together. In 1 Chronicles 13:8, the following instruments of music are mentioned as having been employed on a similar occasion, if not on this very occasion - harps, psalteries, timbrels, cymbals, and trumpets. Among them were the damsels playing with timbrels - The true construction of the passage is, “Behind were the players in…”

“the players: Psa 87:7, Psa 150:3-5; Rev 14:2, Rev 14:3, Rev 15:2, Rev 15:3 among: Psa 148:12, Psa 148:13; Exo 15:20; Jdg 11:34; Sa1 18:6; Jer 31:4, Jer 31:13 Psalms 68:26”