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Psalms 117:1
O praise the Lord, all ye nations, since He is the God of the Gentiles as well as of the Jews, Luke 2:30; praise Him, all ye people, all the nations of the world, without exception.
O praise the Lord, all ye nations, since He is the God of the Gentiles as well as of the Jews, Luke 2:30; praise Him, all ye people, all the nations of the world, without exception.
PSALM CXVII _The psalmist calls upon the nations of the world to praise the_ _Lord for his mercy and kindness, and for the fulfilment of his_ _promises_, 1, 2. NOTES ON PSALM CXVII This is the s...
O PRAISE THE LORD, ALL YE NATIONS - The idea is that God has a claim to universal worship, and that all the nations of the earth are under obligations to adore him as the true God. He is not the God o...
Psalms 117 This is the shortest Psalm. All the earth, all the nations, are now called upon to praise, because His merciful kindness has been great towards His people Israel. And their blessing means t...
CXVII. All nations are invited to worship Yahweh, who has revealed His power and faithfulness to Israel. The Ps. is Messianic in the general sense that it contemplates the union of all nations in the...
PRAISE, &C. Quoted in Romans 15:11. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ with. _eth_. Jehovah Himself. App-4. PRAISE. Laud. See note on Psalms 63:3. PEOPLE. peoples....
DISCOURSE: 693 THE GENTILES CALLED TO PRAISE GOD Psalms 117. _O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord end...
_An exhortation to praise God for his mercy and truth._ THIS psalm, like the 110th, seems to be altogether prophetical of the joy which all nations should conceive at the coming of the Messiah; to giv...
PSALMS 117 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE All Nations Invited to Join in Israel's Tribute of Praise. ANALYSIS By Synonyms of Unmistakable Universality, All Nations are Invited to Praise Jehovah for his Kindnes...
O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. Psalms 117:1 -Cf. Introduction to Psalms 116:1 O PRAISE THE LORD, ALL YE NATIONS - Israel's call to the Gentiles to praise Yahweh for H...
The shortest chapter in the Bible, and the middle chapter. It is a doxology, calling all peoples to praise Jehovah. It may have been appended to some Ps....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE SHORTEST PSALM PSALMS 117 THE FIFTH EGYPTIAN HALLEL Jesus said, "I have other sheep. They do not live at this farm. I must fetch them also and they will
CXVII. This, shortest of all the psalms, might well be called _multum in parvo,_ for in its few words it contains, as St. Paul felt (Romans 15:11), the germ of the great doctrine of the universality o...
הַֽלְל֣וּ אֶת ־יְ֭הוָה כָּל ־גֹּויִ֑ם שַׁ֝בְּח֗וּהוּ...
Psalms 117:1 THIS shortest of the psalms is not a fragment, though some MSS attach it to the preceding and some to the following psalm. It contains large "riches in a narrow room," and its very brevit...
PRAISE HIM FOR ALL HIS BENEFITS Psalms 116:12; Psalms 117:1 The psalmist dwells joyfully on his enslavement to God, because in and through it he had found perfect liberty. _Thou hast loosed my bonds_...
The fifth song of the Hallel is the shortest in the Psalter. In it in a very deep sense, is fulfilled the saying so common that “Brevity is the soul of wit.” It lives indeed with the wisdom of perfect...
Alleluia is borrowed from the end of the former psalm in Hebrew. Our Saviour and the apostles determine us to explain this solely of the Messias, though should would also see another literal sense, ap...
CONTENTS In this short but sweet Psalm, the nations of the earth are called upon to praise God for his mercy; and the people of God are more immediately urged to be active in this service. Psalms 11...
_THE CRY OF FAITH AND JOY_ ‘I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.’ Psalms 117:1 We shall never, I suppose, know from whose lips and hearts this cry of faith and joy first spr...
_THE SHORTEST PSALM_ ‘O praise the Lord!’ Psalms 117:1 This is the shortest of the Psalms, but is honoured by being quoted by the Apostle Paul as a link in his chain of argument that God meant His s...
1_Praise Jehovah, all ye nations. _The Holy Spirit having, by the mouth of the prophet, exhorted all nations to celebrate the praises of God’s mercy and faithfulness, Paul, in his Epistle to the Roman...
Psalms 117 is the calling the other nations and peoples to come and praise Jehovah, who will be now King over all the earth. They join and are brought happily into this relationship, Jehovah being mad...
O PRAISE THE LORD, ALL YE NATIONS,.... The Lord having chosen, and Christ having redeemed, some out of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation; and the Gospel being sent and preached to all nations,...
O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. Ver. 1. _O praise the Lord, all ye nations_] viz. For Christ, that gift, John 4:10, that benefit, 1 Timothy 6:2, that desire of all natio...
_O praise the Lord, all ye nations_ Let not the praises that are due to the great Lord of all, be confined to our nation; but let all people upon the face of the earth praise him. _For his merciful ki...
PSALM 117 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm contains a prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles, as appears both from the matter of it, and from ROMANS 15:11, where it is quoted to that purpose. An exhortation t...
Psalms 117:1 Praise H1984 (H8761) LORD H3068 Gentiles H1471 Laud H7623 (H8761) peoples H523 O praise -...
CONTENTS: A solemn call to the nations to praise God. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The Lord is kind to us as His creatures and merciful to us as sinners, therefore praise is due Him from all peoples...
This psalm, like Psalms 113., is a prophecy of the conversion of the gentiles: so it is cited by St. Paul in Romans 15:11. Some critics regard it as an exordium to the hundred and eighteenth psalm. It...
_O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise Him, all ye people._ AN EXHORTATION TO PRAISE GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS 1. In God’s worship it is not always necessary to be long; few words sometimes say what...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 117:1. This short hymn invites ALL NATIONS to PRAISE THE LORD. The Lord’s steadfast love
INTRODUCTION 1. Authorship, &c., unknown. 2. Probably a liturgical introduction to, or dismissal from, a service, either by separate choirs or the whole people. 3. “The lyrical expression of the consc...
EXPOSITION IT has been doubted whether this exceedingly short psalm can ever have been in tended for a separate composition, and was not rather written as a conclusion to Psalms 116:1. or an introduct...
Beginning with Psalms 113:1-9, you have what are known as the Hallel psalms, meaning the psalms of praise. Hallel meaning praise in Hebrew, and hallelujah, the hallelujah praise to Yahweh. So these ar...
Isaiah 24:15; Isaiah 24:16; Isaiah 42:10; Psalms 66:1; Psalms 66:4;...