Power. God the Son. Earthly monarchs are forced to depend on others for the execution of their orders. But God is infinite. (Calmet) --- Number. He knows innumerable things: (Worthington) or rather, (Haydock) the divine wisdom hath no parts, Jeremias x. 6. (Berthier)
Verse Psalms 146:5. _HAPPY_ IS HE _THAT_ HATH _THE GOD OF JACOB FOR HIS HELP_] While he that trusts in man is _miserable_, he that trusts in God is _happy_. _In the son of man_, בן אדם ben Adam, ther...
HAPPY IS HE THAT HATH THE GOD OF JACOB FOR HIS HELP - Who may rely for protection on the God who defended Jacob in his travels and dangers. Or, perhaps the word Jacob is used here collectively to deno...
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...
CXLVI. This Ps., like the remaining Pss. to the end of the Psalter, begins and closes with the word Hallelujah (Praise Yah). These Pss. may originally have formed a collection by themselves. The theme...
HAPPY. The last of the twenty-seven Beatitudes in the Book of Psalms. See App-63. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. OF JACOB: i.e. the God who met Jacob (Genesis 28:13) when he had nothing (Genesis 32:10 and de...
Happy is he, whose help is the God of Jacob; Whose hope resteth upon Jehovah his God. Cp. Psalms 33:12; Psalms 144:15; Psalms 20:1. The word for _hope_is Aramaic, and is found elsewhere only in...
DISCOURSE: 744 THE BLESSEDNESS OF TRUSTING IN GOD Psalms 146:5. _Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God._ HOW exalted was the frame of the Psalmist’s m...
PSALMS 146 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Twelve Reasons for Trusting in Jehovah. ANALYSIS Having, in Response to the Public Reader's Invitation, stirred up his Own Soul to Praise Jehovah all his Life Long (Psa...
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: HAPPY IS HE THAT HATH THE GOD OF JACOB FOR HIS HELP - instead of 'trusting in princes, in whom there is no he...
Here begins the final group, Psalms 146-150, known as the 'Hallelujah' Pss., because each begins and ends with that word, meaning, 'Praise ye the Lord.' They sum up the joy of the returned exiles, and...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ *TRUST ONLY IN GOD PSALMS 146 THE FIRST *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "*Believe also in me" ...
For the different aspects of the Divine nature and character inspiring trust see Introduction. With this verse comp. Psalms 33:12; Psalms 144:15. HOPE. — The Hebrew word is rare in the psalter, expres...
אַשְׁרֵ֗י שֶׁ֤ אֵ֣ל יַעֲקֹ֣ב בְּ עֶזְרֹ֑ו שׂ֝
Psalms 146:1 THE long-drawn music of the Psalter closes with five Hallelujah psalms, in which, with constantly swelling diapason, all themes of praise are pealed forth, until the melodious thunder of...
THE LORD LOVETH THE RIGHTEOUS Psalms 146:1-10 This and the four following psalms are the “Hallelujah” Psalms. Each begins with that word. They were probably composed for use in the second Temple....
We now come to the final psalms of adoration, each one of which opens and closes with the great call to praise. “Hallelujah, praise the Lord.” The theme of this first is that of the sufficiency of God...
There can be no hesitation to determine to whom these verses refer. The God of Jacob, is God's Covenant name in Christ. And the offices that covenant God hath performed, and is performing, as plainly...
5._Blessed is he_, _etc_. As it would not have been enough to reprove the sin, he submits the remedy upon which the proper correction of it depends; and this is, that the hopes of men are only stable...
Psalms 146 introduces the full final praises: the first, the outpouring of the heart in praise to Him as the God of Jacob, celebrating what He is, and the comfort of trusting Him, the Creator, the Hel...
HAPPY [IS HE] THAT [HATH] THE GOD OF JACOB FOR HIS HELP,.... The God of the patriarch Jacob, the Messiah, who is that God that fed him all his life, the Angel that redeemed him from all evil, with who...
Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God: Ver. 5. _Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help_] Since he is the King immortal, all powerfu...
_Put not your trust in princes_ However great their wealth or power may be; _nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help_ “Earthly princes, if they have the will, often want the power, even to pro...
A HALLELUJAH TO THE TRUE HELPER. This psalm, whose author is not known, is the first of the five Hallelujah Psalms with which the psalter closes, an invitation to praise the Lord for the merciful and...
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob, the one true, almighty, and eternal God, FOR HIS HELP, WHOSE HOPE IS IN THE LORD, HIS GOD, who looks up to the Lord in firm trust, with the feeling of fellowshi...
5-10 The psalmist encourages us to put confidence in God. We must hope in the providence of God for all we need as to this life, and in the grace of God for that which is to come. The God of heaven b...
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Psalms 146:5 Happy H835 God H410 Jacob H3290 help H5828 hope H7664 LORD H3068 God H430 Happy -...
Psalms 146:1. _Praise ye the LORD._ Or, «Hallelujah.» I am sorry to see that great word, Hallelujah, Hallelu-Jah, praise to Jah, Jehovah, become so hackneyed as it is, by talk about «Hallelujah lasse...
CONTENTS: The psalmist engages himself to praise God and exhorts others to trust and praise Him. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: There should be no exemption from the service of praising God....
This, and the two following, are called the Hallelujah psalms of Haggai and of Zechariah the prophets, being composed after the captivity. Psalms 146:10. _The Lord shall reign for ever; even thy God,...
_His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth._ THE PHILOSOPHY OF DEATH The text refers to-- I. The destiny of all. 1. A special day--the day of death. 2. A striking view of death. 3. Man’s...
_Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help._ THE GOD OF JACOB Few of God’s names are more suggestive than the one in the verse before us--the God of Jacob. It is very instructive, for examp...
_Praise ye the Lord._ HALLELUJAH I. The grandest resolution (verses 1, 2). 1. The author’s belief in the existence of his soul. When this conviction comes, the whole universe is transfigured, and G...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 146:1. Because God rules everything, his suffering people can have hope. ⇐...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 146:5 Yahweh, THE GOD OF JACOB, is the one WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM (words from...
INTRODUCTION In the Hebrew this Psalm has no superscription. The Septuagint has the superscription, “Hallelujah. Of Haggai and Zechariah;” and is followed in this respect by the Vulgate and the Syriac...
EXPOSITION THE psalter ends with a cluster of "Hallelujah Psalms," five in number, all of them both beginning and ending with the phrase. In the Hebrew none of them has any" title;" but it is generall...
Now the final psalms or the Hallel psalms. They begin with hallelujah and end with hallelujah in the Hebrew. Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. While I live I will praise the LORD: I will...
1 Peter 1:21; Deuteronomy 33:29; Exodus 3:6; Genesis 32:24; Genes