George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 148:5
He spoke, and they were made, is not in Hebrew or Chaldean, being taken from Psalm xxxii. 9., (Calmet) or lost in the original. (Berthier)
He spoke, and they were made, is not in Hebrew or Chaldean, being taken from Psalm xxxii. 9., (Calmet) or lost in the original. (Berthier)
Verse Psalms 148:5. _HE COMMANDED, AND THEY WERE CREATED._] He spake the word expressive of the idea in his infinite mind; and they sprang into being according to that idea....
LET THEM PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD - That is, Let them praise Yahweh himself - the name being often put for the person or thing referred to. FOR HE COMMANDED, AND THEY WERE CREATED - He showed his g...
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....
_for HE commanded HE_is emphatically expressed. Cp. Psalms 33:9, whence also comes the addition of the LXX, which is retained in P.B.V., _HE spake the word, and they were made_....
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
Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created. FOR HE COMMANDED, AND THEY WERE CREATED. HE HATH ALSO STABLISHED THEM FOREVER AND EVER. Herein are stated the grounds...
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!" ...
יְֽ֭הַֽלְלוּ אֶת ־שֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֤י ה֭וּא צ
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....
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...
5._Let them praise the name_, _etc_. As he speaks of things wanting intelligence, he passes to the third person, from which we infer that his reason for having spoken in the second person hitherto, wa...
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,...
LET THEM PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD,.... Set forth the glory of the nature and perfections of God, and celebrate the praise of them; even all celestial creatures, the angels, the hosts of heaven, the...
_Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created._ Ver. 5. _For he commanded, and they were created_] His fiat only made all; this is celebrated by that heavenly choir,...
_Let them praise the name of the Lord_ “Who hath set forth his most transcendent wisdom, power, and magnificence in such a variety of stupendous works, that there is not the smallest of them, but mini...
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...
Let them praise the name of the Lord, setting forth in grateful songs His wonderful essence and attributes; FOR HE COMMANDED, AND THEY WERE CREATED, Genesis 1:1; Psalms 33:6....
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...
They owe their being wholly to God's good will....
Psalms 148:5 praise H1984 (H8762) name H8034 LORD H3068 commanded H6680 (H8765) created H1254 (H8738)...
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...
Amos 9:6; Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:2; Genesis 1:6; Jeremiah 10:11;...