take Your seat over them on high.
This phrase emphasizes God's position as the supreme judge and ruler. The imagery of God taking His seat "on high" signifies His authority and majesty, reminiscent of a king sitting on a throne. In the ancient Near Eastern context, kings would sit on elevated thrones to signify their power and to preside over legal matters. Biblically, this is echoed in passages like Psalm 47:8, where God is described as reigning over the nations from His holy throne. Theologically, this can be seen as a type of Christ, who is seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding for believers and exercising divine authority (Hebrews 1:3). This seating also anticipates the final judgment, where Christ will judge the living and the dead (Matthew 25:31-32).

• David envisions every nation turning toward the Lord, just as Psalm 22:27 promises, “All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD.”

• The “peoples” are literally crowds of men and women God created, not abstract ideas. Scripture repeatedly invites real gatherings before Him—see Psalm 50:5, “Gather to Me My saints.”

• This line underscores that public, corporate acknowledgment of God is right and expected. When Revelation 7:9-10 depicts “a great multitude…crying out, ‘Salvation belongs to our God,’” it reflects the fulfillment of what David longed for here.

• The verse shifts from the people’s action of gathering to God’s action of reigning. Psalm 9:7 declares, “The LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment.”

• God’s “seat” is His throne of absolute authority. David does not ask God merely to observe; he calls on Him to judge righteously. Compare Psalm 96:13, “He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.”

• This is a confident appeal, assuming the Lord is both willing and ready to intervene. As Isaiah 33:22 affirms, “For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our Lawgiver, the LORD is our King.”

• God’s elevation is literal and moral. Physically, heaven is His dwelling (Psalm 11:4), and spiritually He is “exalted far above all gods” (Psalm 97:9).

• The phrase reminds us that His judgments flow from perfect perspective and purity. Human tribunals can err, but the Judge who sits “on high” never does (James 1:17).

• Because He reigns from this exalted place, His decisions are final, unstoppable, and good for His people (Psalm 103:19).

Psalm 7:7 pictures a real, future moment when every people group gathers before the Lord, and He visibly assumes His rightful throne high above them. David’s prayer rests on the certainty that God will judge with flawless righteousness. For believers, the verse calls us to anticipate and rejoice in that day, confident that the One who reigns “on high” will vindicate His own and set all things right.

For their sakes.--Rather, over or above it, as in LXX. The poet has a vision of judgment. Jehovah summons the nations, arranges them at His tribunal, and then returns to His high throne to preside. This explanation is more consonant with the context (see next verse) than to suppose the judgment to have taken place between the two causes of the verse, and the departure of God into the height "as a victor after battle" (Delitzsch), or "in proof of His supremacy as judge" (Ewald). This picture of arraigned nations is certainly in favour of the view which makes the psalm the expression of the feelings of the community rather than of an individual.