Their Position

Bards of shittim” wood standing up) This intimates that they had been previously cut down.
Believers were once the children of wrath, even as ethers, growing wild in nature’s forest; but they had been selected by Divine-grace; and had been brought low by the convictions of the Spirit, —and they are here seen Standing In grace. (Romans 5: 2.) Their feet, as it were, set upon a rock, and their goings established. (Psalm 40: 2.)