He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds - (; ; ; ; Isaiah 57:18.) The Lord Jesus fulfils this promise spiritually (). The "wounds" of the spiritual Israel are now being bound up by the great Healer. Hereafter, also, the literal Israel shall have both its temporal, or national, and its spiritual wounds healed up by Messiah, its King.
Verse Psalms 147:3. _HE HEALETH THE BROKEN IN HEART_] שבורי, _the shivered_ in heart. From the root שבר _shabar_, to _break in pieces_, we have our word _shiver_, to break into _splinters_, into _shiv...
HE HEALETH THE BROKEN IN HEART - Referrring primarily to the fact that he had healed those who were crushed and broken in their long captivity, and that he had given them comfort by returning them to...
PSALM 144-150 THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS The five Psalms with which this marvellous book closeth are all Psalms of praise. The word “praise” is found in the Hebrew thirty-seven times. Each one of these Ps...
CXLVII. The LXX, perhaps rightly, divides the Ps. into two, Psalms 147:1 and Psalms 147:12. PSALMS 147:1. An invitation to praise Yahweh for His almighty power and His kindness to Israel. Observe how...
Cp. Isaiah 59:1; Hosea 6:1. Israel, crushed with grief and despair, wounded with sorrow and shame in its exile, is meant. Nehemiah's feelings (Psalms 1:4; Psalms 2:3) represent
Jehovah's goodness to Jerusalem. _doth build up_ The restoration and repeopling of the city generally are meant, not merely the reconstruction of its houses and walls. It is regarded as a continuous...
Praise Jehovah, the restorer of Israel, the sovereign ruler of the world....
PSALMS 147 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Praise for the Restoration of Jerusalem and for Israel's Preeminence: with Grateful Recognition of Rain and of Spring. ANALYSIS After the Repetition and Expansion of th...
A song of praise in which the Psalmist recounts God's mercies (1) in restoring Jerusalem, (2) in helping those cast down, (3) in caring for the animal world, and (4) in the changing seasons....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD’S LOVE AND *POWER PSALMS 147 THE 2ND *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "If God makes the grass green (so that it looks right), how much more will
BROKEN IN HEART. — As in Psalms 34:18. (Comp. Isaiah 61:1.) WOUNDS. — See margin, and comp. Job 9:28; Proverbs 15:13....
הָ֭ רֹפֵא לִ שְׁב֣וּרֵי לֵ֑ב וּ֝ מְחַבֵּ֗שׁ
Psalms 147:1 THE threefold calls to praise Jehovah (Psalms 147:1, Psalms 147:7, Psalms 147:12) divide this psalm into three parts, the two fo
WHY WE PRAISE THE LORD Psalms 147:1-11 It has been supposed that this psalm was prepared for use when the new walls of the city were completed in the days of Nehemiah. It contains a further enumer...
In this psalm, beginning with a call which declares the pleasantness and comeliness of praise (v. Psa 147:1), the singer first celebrates the Divine activity in restoring His people (vv. Psa 147:2-6)....
He healeth the (c) broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. (c) With affliction, or sorrow for sin....
or Hebrew Psalm cxlvii. Ver. 14. Peace. To obtain this, the peace of Jesus Christ must triumph in our hearts, Colossians iii. 15. (Haydock) --- Borders. People perceiving that Assuerus favoured the Je...
I consider this subject spiritually. For the building of Jerusalem is peculiarly the office of Christ. When the Lord promises to lift up an ensign to the people, it evidently refers to Christ. See tho...
_GOD’S BUILDING_ ‘The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; He c...
In Psalms 147 the saints take their place now in Jerusalem and Zion to say what He is. He is their God; He builds up Jerusalem and gathers together the outcasts of Israel, healing the broken in heart...
HE HEALETH THE BROKEN IN HEART,.... Christ is a physician; many are the diseases of his people; he heals them all by his blood, stripes, wounds; and among the rest their broken hearts, which none can...
_He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds._ Ver. 3. _He healeth the broken in heart_] Pouring the oil of his grace into none but those broken vessels. _ And bindeth up their wounds...
_Praise the Lord, for it is good_ It is acceptable to God, and greatly beneficial and productive of comfort to ourselves. _It is pleasant, and praise is comely_ “Being the only return man can make for...
HALLELUJAH TO THE GOD OF ZION. A Hallelujah Psalm, setting forth God's providential care toward all creatures, but especially toward His people, His holy congregation....
He healeth the broken in heart, those in great distress on account of bitter experiences in their lives, AND BINDETH UP THEIR WOUNDS, literally, "their griefs," or "pains. ...
WOUNDS: _ Heb._ griefs...
1-11 Praising God is work that is its own wages. It is comely; it becomes us as reasonable creatures, much more as people in covenant with God. He gathers outcast sinners by his grace, and will bring...
THE BROKEN IN HEART, either with the sense of their sins, or with their sorrows and grievous calamities. He seems to speak peculiarly of the captive Israelites now returned....
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Psalms 147:2 The text reveals the constructive side of Divine government: I. As shown in the building up of the Church. That He should do so shows: (1) that the Church is self-demolished; (2) that i...
Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD:_ This Psalm begins and ends with Hallelujah. So may this service, and so may our lives, commence and conclude with Hallelujah! Psalms 147:1. For it is good to sing...
This Book of Psalms ends its golden stream in a cataract of praise. The last Psalms are Hallelujah Psalms; this one begins and ends, as several others do, with «Hallelujah.» Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye...
Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely._ «It is good,» that is to say, it is a thing that ought to be done, it is a r...
Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant;_ Ye that know him, ye that love him, «praise ye the Lord.» «It is good: «it is right, it is accepta...
This is one of the Hallelujah Psalms; it begins and ends with «Praise ye the LORD.» May our hearts be in tune, that we may praise the Lord while we read these words of praise! Psalms 147:1. _Praise y...
CONTENTS: A call to praise God. The greatness and condescending goodness of the Lord celebrated. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Praise is comely it becomes us as reasonable creatures on account of God...
This psalm, like the preseding, is without title in the Hebrew or Chaldee; but is ascribed by the Versions to Haggai and Zechariah. REFLECTIONS. The people are here exhorted to praise God for all th...
_He healeth the broken in heart._ GOD’S RELATION TO SORROWING SOULS AND TO STARRY SYSTEMS I. His relation to sorrowing souls. “He healeth the broken in heart.” There are broken hearts and wounded so...
_The Lord doth build up Jerusalem._ THE GREATNESS AND GENTLENESS OF GOD The text reveals the constructive side of the Divine government. I. As shown in the building of the Church. 1. “The Lord dot...
_Praise ye the Lord._ GENUINE WORSHIP: - I. The transcendent excellence of true worship (verse 1). 1. It is good. (1) It accords with the constitution of the human soul. (2) It accords with the D...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 147:1. Here the praise is focused on gratitude for some great work of “building up Jerusalem” (or rebuilding it after the exile), and for the Creator who sustains his creati...
INTRODUCTION “Like the last Psalm, and like those which follow it, this is evidently an anthem intended for the service of the Second Temple. It celebrates God’s almighty and gracious rule over His pe...
EXPOSITION This psalm is generally assigned to the time of the dedication of the city wall (Nehemiah 12:27-16), when the gate-towers had been set up, and the gates and bars put in their places (see Ps...
Praise ye the LORD [or hallelujah]: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; it's pleasant; praise is comely [or desirable, beautiful]. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the ou...
Hosea 6:1; Hosea 6:2; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 57:15;...