George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 150:3
Trumpet. This instrument was reserved for priests, Numbers x. 2. The nine others might be used by Levites. (Calmet) --- The precise signification of them is not known. (Berthier)
Trumpet. This instrument was reserved for priests, Numbers x. 2. The nine others might be used by Levites. (Calmet) --- The precise signification of them is not known. (Berthier)
Verse Psalms 150:3. _THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET_] שופר _sophar_, from its noble, cheering, and majestic sound; for the original has this ideal meaning. _WITH THE PSALTERY_] נבל _nebel_; the nabla, a ho...
PRAISE HIM WITH THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET - Margin, cornet. In this verse and the verses following there is an allusion to the instruments of music which were commonly employed in Hebrew worship. The i...
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...
THE. No Art. in Hebrew text....
_with the sound of the trumpet_ With blast of cornet. The -cornet," originally a ram's or cow's horn, perhaps in later times a metal instrument of the same shape, was mainly employed for secular purpo...
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 with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. PRAISE HIM WITH THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET ... THE PSALTERY AND HARP. The same instruments as here and are mentioned a...
This is 'the grand Finale of the spiritual concert,' and worthily closes not only this little Hallelujah group, but the whole Psalter....
TRUMPET] i.e. _Shopher,_ a kind of horn. PSALTERY] i.e. _Nebhel,_ a species of harp, or guitar, or lyre, with a bulging resonance box at one end. HARP] i.e. _Kinnor,_ the most ancient form of harp; a...
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" ...
TRUMPET. — Heb., _shôphar._ (See Psalms 81:3; Psalms 98:6. LXX., σάλπιγξ.) It was the crooked horn, sometimes also called _keren._ (_Bïble Educator,_ 2:231.) PSALTERY AND HARP. — See Note, Psalms 33:...
הַֽ֭לְלוּהוּ בְּ תֵ֣קַע שֹׁופָ֑ר הַֽ֝לְל֗וּהוּ בְּ...
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...
Praise him with the sound of the (c) trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. (c) Exhorting the people only to rejoice in praising God, he makes mention of those instruments which by God's com...
_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...
3._Praise him with sound of trumpet. _I do not insist upon the words in the Hebrew signifying the musical instruments; only let the reader remember that sundry different kinds are here mentioned, whic...
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 WITH THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET,.... Which was used in calling the assembly together, for worship and on other occasions; and at the feast of blowing of trumpets, and in the year of jubilee,...
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Ver. 3. _Praise him with the sound of the trumpet_] With all your might and members, with utmost joy and jollity in th...
_Praise him with the sound of the trumpet_, &c. “It is impossible for us to distinguish,” says Dr. Horne, “and describe the several sorts of musical instruments here mentioned, as the Hebrews themselv...
Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet, or cornet, as used by the Jews to announce religious assemblies, Numbers 10:1; PRAISE HIM WITH THE PSALTERY, a kind of lute, and harp, or zither....
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....
TRUMPET: Or, Cornet...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 150:3 Praise H1984 (H8761) sound H8629 trumpet H7782 Praise H1984 (H8761) lute H5035 harp H3658...
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 Him with the sound of the trumpet._ MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN WORSHIP 1. Albeit the typical ceremonies of musical instruments in God’s public worship, belonging to the pedagogy of the Church, in...
_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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 150:3 Praising God fully requires more than human voices. It also requires instruments as varied as TRUMPET, LUTE, HARP, strings
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...
1 Chronicles 15:24; 1 Chronicles 15:28; 1 Chronicles 16:42; Daniel 3:5;...