George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 148:2
Hosts. Stars, (Calmet) or rather angels. (St. Chrysostom) (Matthew xxvi. 52.) --- The three children made the same invitation to them, rejoicing in this holy communion. [Daniel iii.] (Berthier)
Hosts. Stars, (Calmet) or rather angels. (St. Chrysostom) (Matthew xxvi. 52.) --- The three children made the same invitation to them, rejoicing in this holy communion. [Daniel iii.] (Berthier)
PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS ANGELS - Dwelling in the heavens. Compare the notes at Psalms 103:20. PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS HOSTS - See the notes at Psalms 103:21 and the notes at...
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...
CXLVIII. AN INVITATION TO BLESS YAHWEH. It is addressed, Psalms 148:1 to the heavens and all that therein is, Psalms 148:7 to the earth: Psalms 148:13 f. gives the reason for which above all Yahweh is...
Let the heavens and all that is in them praise Jehovah their Creator....
Cp. Psalms 103:20 _a_, Psalms 103:21 _a. Hosts_may include both heavenly beings and heavenly bodies, and in Job 38:7 angels and stars join in praise: but here as in...
PSALMS 148 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Praise Invoked from All Creation. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 148:1-6, All Things in Heaven called upon to Praise Jehovahfor Reasons Given. Stanza II., Psalms 148:7-14
Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. PRAISE YE HIM ... ALL HIS HOSTS - (.) The sun, moon, and stars are the material, the angels, the immaterial portion of "His hosts." The...
This is the 'Gloria in Excelsis' of the Psalter, wherein all created things, animate and inanimate, are called upon to praise Jehovah....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ EVERYTHING - *PRAISE THE *LORD! PSALMS 148 THE 3RD *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus *commanded the wind and the sea, "Be quiet, and stay quiet!" ...
הַֽלְל֥וּהוּ כָל ־מַלְאָכָ֑יו הַֽ֝לְל֗וּהוּ כָּל־_צְבָאָֽיו_†׃...
Psalms 148:1 THE mercy granted to Israel (Psalms 148:14) is, in the psalmist's estimation, worthy to call forth strains of praise from all creatures. It is the same conception as is found in several o...
CREATION'S SONG OF PRAISE Psalms 148:1-14 The “Benedicite” in the Book of Common Prayer is based on this psalm. The sacred minstrel is not content that he or his people should have a monopoly of prai...
This is the psalm of the whole creation. It has two movements indicated by the words “From the havens” (v. Psa 148:1), and “From the Earth” (v. Psa 148:7). In the first the scale is a descending one....
Praise ye him, all (a) his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. (a) Because they are members of the same body, he sets them before our eyes, who are most willing and by their prompt obedience teach...
He next looks to the heavenly host, angels, and the brighter order of celestial beings, who minister unceasingly to Jehovah. John in a vision, beheld the hierarchies thus engaged, and heard their song...
Psalms 148 calls first on heaven, and all in it, to take their part in the great Hallelujah, and praise Jehovah who had created and sustains them in their place; and then on the earth, with all in it,...
PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS ANGELS,.... The Targum adds, who minister before him: the ministering spirits, the angels of Jehovah, even of Christ, who are his creatures, and at his command; and whom he send...
Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. Ver. 2. _Praise ye him, all his angels_] Whose proper office it is to adore and praise God, Job 38:7 Isa 6:3 Hebrews 1:6, which also they...
_Praise ye the Lord_ Bishop Lowth, speaking of the origin of this divine ode, observes, “that it had its birth from the most pleasing affections of the human soul, joy, love, admiration.” “If we conte...
Praise ye Him, all His angels, the messengers of the supreme Ruler of the universe; PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS HOSTS, the armies of the God of Sabaoth....
HALLELUJAH BY ALL CREATURES TO THE GOD OF SALVATION. A song of praise, even more extensive in its scope than the preceding, all heavenly creatures being called upon to join with the beings on earth t...
1-6 We, in this dark and sinful world, know little of the heavenly world of light. But we know that there is above us a world of blessed angels. They are always praising God, therefore the psalmist s...
He inviteth the angels here, and the senseless creatures afterward, to praise God; not as if the former needed, or the latter were capable of, his exhortation, but only by a poetical rapture; the desi...
Psalms 148:2 Praise H1984 (H8761) angels H4397 Praise H1984 (H8761) hosts H6635 all his angels -...
ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
We will first read a short Psalm inciting all to praise the Lord, and then we will read part of the first chapter of Luke's Gospel, specially noticing Mary's song of praise. It is a blessed thing to i...
CONTENTS: A call to all living things to praise God. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: No place is too high for the praises of the Most High. All creatures on earth should also speak the Lord's praise, f...
This is another hallelujah psalm of Haggai and of Zechariah the prophets, in which all nature is made the choir, and Jehovah the object of the song. Psalms 148:4. _Ye heavens of heavens._ This is the...
_Praise ye the Lord from the heavens._ THE GREAT, THE GREATER, AND THE GREATEST: - I. The great. Sun, moon, stars, etc. 1. How boundless in variety. 2. How immeasurable in extent. II. The greater...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 148:1. All of God’s creatures should join in praising him. The concluding verse, regarding God’s special people Israel, may refer to some particular event such as the return...
INTRODUCTION “In this splendid anthem the Psalmist calls upon the whole creation, in its two great divisions (according to the Hebrew conception) of heaven and earth, to praise Jehovah. Things with an...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been well called "the joy-song of creation." Israel, having received a signal manifestation of the Divine power (Psalms 148:14), calls on all things in heaven and earth to pr...
Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him from the heights. Praise him, all ye his angels: praise him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun, moon: stars of light. The heavens of heavens, the waters...
Ezekiel 3:12; Genesis 2:1; Isaiah 6:2; Job 38:7; Psalms 103:20;...