George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 150:2
Acts. Ye, for whom miracles have been wrought, praise him as much as you are able, though you cannot do it sufficiently. (Worthington)
Acts. Ye, for whom miracles have been wrought, praise him as much as you are able, though you cannot do it sufficiently. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 150:2. _FOR HIS MIGHTY ACTS_] Whether manifested in creation, government, mercy or justice. _HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS._] כרב גדלו _kerob gudlo_, according to the multitude of his magnitu...
PRAISE HIM FOR HIS MIGHTY ACTS - See the notes at Psalms 145:4 : “One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.” The Hebrew word is the same. The reference is 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...
CL. Each book ends with a doxology. Here we have a much longer doxology, which closes Book V and the whole Psalter also. The praise of God begins from His sanctuary, _i.e._ probably from His sanctuary...
FOR. in [the recital of] His mighty acts. MIGHTY ACTS. Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read "His might". EXCELLENT. the abundance of His greatness or grandeur....
_for his mighty acts_ Cp. Psalms 106:2; Psalms 145:4; Psalms 145:11-12. _according to_the abundance of his greatness] Cp....
PSALMS 150 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Expansion and Enforcement of the Public Reader's Invitation to the People to Join in the Responses in the Temple-Worship. ANALYSIS 1. The Public Reader's Invitation_...
Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. PRAISE HIM FOR HIS MIGHTY ACTS - (Psalms 145:5.) PRAISE HIM ACCORDING TO HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS - (.)...
This is 'the grand Finale of the spiritual concert,' and worthily closes not only this little Hallelujah group, but the whole Psalter....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD IS THE BEST! PSALMS 150 THE LAST *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "If people *held their *peace, the stones would immediately start shouting" ...
MIGHTY ACTS... EXCELLENT GREATNESS. — The one displayed on earth, the other manifested in heaven. (See preceding Note.)...
הַֽלְל֥וּהוּ בִ גְבוּרֹתָ֑יו הַֽ֝לְל֗וּהוּ כְּ רֹ֣ב...
Psalms 150:1 THIS noble close of the Psalter rings out one clear note of praise, as the end of all the many moods and experiences recorded in its wonderful sighs and songs. Tears, groans, wailings for...
THE PRAISE-SONGS OF GOD'S PEOPLE Psalms 149:1-9; Psalms 150:1-6 Israel was formed into a nation and delivered from Babylon, that her singers should lead the praises of mankind, and her teachers pr...
This psalm which concludes the book, and all the Psalter as final doxology, is the most comprehensive, and illuminative illustration of perfect praise in the whole Psalter. In our analysis of it as do...
_HALLELUJAH!_ ‘O praise God in His holiness: praise Him in the firmament of His power,’ etc. Psalms 150:1; Psalms 150:6 (Prayer Book Version) I. CONSIDER THE NATURE OF PRAISE.—(1) From such passage...
Psalms 150 is a general closing summons to praise Jehovah only, remark, it is now freely in His sanctuary, as well as in the firmament of His power in His sanctuary, with all the various instruments o...
PRAISE HIM FOR HIS MIGHTY ACTS,.... The creation of all things out of nothing; the sustaining of all beings; the government of the world; the redemption of man by Christ, and the wonderful works done...
Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Ver. 2. _Praise him for his mighty acts_] Those wonderful effects of his creative and providential omnipotence. _ Pra...
_Praise him for his mighty acts_ Hebrew, בגבורתיו, _for his mightinesses;_ for all the instances of his might shown in the dispensations of his providence and grace; the power he hath exerted in creat...
Praise Him for His mighty acts, the miraculous exhibitions of His creative power; PRAISE HIM ACCORDING TO HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS, or "abundance of greatness," the absolute and limitless manifestation...
CONCLUDING HYMN OF PRAISE. The last Hallelujah Psalm is a fitting doxology for the whole Book of Psalms, proclaiming the place, theme, mode, and extent of God's praise....
As his infinite majesty deserves to be praised....
Psalms 150:2 Praise H1984 (H8761) acts H1369 Praise H1984 (H8761) excellent H7230 greatness H1433 for his mighty -...
Psalms 150:1 , PSALMS 150:6 I. Consider the nature of praise. (1) From such passages as Isaiah 6:1; Revelation 4:8;...
Psalms 150:1. _Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary:_ Notice how, in this last Psalm, it is praise, praise, praise, all the way through. I think we have the word «praise» some thirteen tim...
CONTENTS: The psalmist would fill all the world with God's praises. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: What have we our breath for but to spend it in praising God and how can we spend it better? Since we...
The full choir, the full band, and the full heart, are here exhorted to praise the Lord. Surely this, when holy prophets joined in the worship, must resemble heaven itself. But oh how can drunkards, s...
_Praise God in His sanctuary._ WORSHIP I. Its spirit is exultation. Is there gratitude in it? Yes, gratitude of the highest type and degree, and gratitude is an element of joy. Is there admiration in...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 150:1. This hymn closes the Psalter with its call for “everything that has breath” to praise the Lord with every kind of jubilant accompaniment. The list of musical instrume...
INTRODUCTION Dean Perowne speaks of this Psalm as “the great closing Hallelujah, or Doxology, of the Psalter, in which every kind of musical instrument is to hear its part as well as the voice of man,...
EXPOSITION COMMENTATORS generally are agreed that this is a most noble psalm, a fit conclusion to the noble collection which here terminates. Professor Cheyne says, "Psalms 150:1 closes this Halleluja...
Now, again, the final psalm is an exhortation of praise and to praise the Lord in unusual ways, as far as we firstly perhaps are concerned. Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him...
Deuteronomy 3:24; Jeremiah 32:17; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 145:5; Psal