What is the context?
The speaker praises God’s loving devotion and justice, then commits to integrity in his own household. Public rule begins with the character practiced close at hand.
Worthless purposes and a perverse heart are rejected. The promises describe the course the speaker intends to take, rather than a complete report that he has already lived without failure.
The question about God coming keeps dependence visible within the pledge. Royal responsibility is not presented as self-sufficient moral power.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley includes court and family within the house. The USCCB note similarly understands the royal household as a model that excludes abuses of power. Neither reading reduces the passage to a modern list of prohibited entertainment.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.