Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 145:15
The eyes of all wait upon Thee, looking to the Lord for their sustenance, and Thou givest them their meat in due season, supplying them with food as they are in need of it.
The eyes of all wait upon Thee, looking to the Lord for their sustenance, and Thou givest them their meat in due season, supplying them with food as they are in need of it.
Verse Psalms 145:15. _THE EYES OF ALL WAIT UPON THEE_] What a fine figure! The _young_ of all animals look up to _their parents for food_. God is here represented as the _universal Father_, providing...
THE EYES OF ALL WAIT UPON THEE - Margin, Look unto thee. All creatures, on the land, in the air, in the waters; all in heaven; all throughout the universe. That is, It is as if all directed their eyes...
PSALM 143-145 In Psalms 143:1 the enemy is mentioned again, the enemy who pursued David. “For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in da...
CXLV. THE NATURE OF YAHWEH. This Ps., which borrows from very late sources (Psalms 145:13, _e.g._ is translated verbally from the Aramaic of Daniel 4:3), is a useful summary of the Divine attributes,...
EYES OF ALL WAIT. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....
The picture of God as the great householder distributing their portions to all His household is repeated from Psalms 104:27. Cp. Matthew 6:26. The next verse also is based upon Psalms 104:28....
PSALMS 145 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Alphabetical Psalm in Praise of Jehovah's Greatness, Goodness and Righteousness. ANALYSIS Naturally, this psalm falls into 21 Couplets (and Verses), the letter _nun_...
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. THE EYES OF ALL WAIT UPON THEE; AND THOU GIVEST THEM THEIR MEAT IN DUE SEASON. borrows this. He who feeds all His cre...
This is an alphabetic Ps., but the v. with the letter _Nun,_ which should come after Psalms 145:13, has been lost. It is a noble Ps., celebrating the praise of God as the bountiful Giver of all good t...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ AN ALPHABET OF *PRAISE PSALMS 145 Jesus said, "Yours is the *kingdom, the power and the *glory, for always, *Amen" ...
These verses are adapted from Psalms 104:27...
עֵֽינֵי ־כֹ֭ל אֵלֶ֣יךָ יְשַׂבֵּ֑רוּ וְ אַתָּ֤ה...
Psalms 145:1 This is an acrostic psalm. Like several others of that kind, it is slightly irregular, one letter (Nun) being omitted. The omission is supplied in the LXX by an obviously spurious verse i...
GOD'S BOUNTIFUL PROVISION Psalms 145:10-21 There is more happiness in the world than we are disposed to think. God's works give praise to Him. Take, for instance, the gladness of one summer day, w...
This is a great psalm of praise standing alone, and serving as an introduction to the last five, which constitute the final anthem of thanksgiving, the expression of perfected praise. It is a solo, bu...
The eyes of (i) all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. (i) That is, as well of man as of beast....
Here again I only detain the Reader to remark, that while we read these scriptures, which point out Jehovah as the universal parent of nature; what a glorious addition to the subject doth it become, t...
_FOR A HARVEST FESTIVAL_ ‘The eyes of all wait upon Thee, O Lord: and Thou givest them their meat in due season.’ Psalms 145:15 (Prayer Book Version) We shall find a few minutes’ consideration of th...
15._The eyes of all hope in thee_. David adduces an additional proof of God’s goodness, in giving food to all living creatures, and thus showing himself in the character of the father of a family. Som...
Psalms 145 goes on in thought into the millennium, after the distress is over, and the full deliverance can be celebrated. It is Christ in spirit perhaps even in person as in the midst of Israel, lead...
THE EYES OF ALL WAIT UPON THEE,.... Not of all creatures, the beasts of the field, the fishes of the sea, and fowls of the air, as in Psalms 104:27; but of all the Lord's people, who are subject to f...
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Ver. 15. _The eyes of all wait upon thee_] Heb. look up with hope to this great housekeeper of the world. The elephant i...
_The Lord upholdeth all that fall_ All that look to him for help; indeed all that are upheld, whose support is not from themselves, or from men, but only from God's powerful providence and grace. _The...
WAIT UPON THEE: Or, look unto thee...
10-21 All God's works show forth his praises. He satisfies the desire of every living thing, except the unreasonable children of men, who are satisfied with nothing. He does good to all the children...
THE EYES OF ALL living creatures wait upon thee; expect and receive their supplies wholly from thy bounty. Expectation is here figuratively ascribed to brute creatures, as PSALMS 104:27 ROMANS 8:22. I...
Psalms 145:15 eyes H5869 expectantly H7663 (H8762) give H5414 (H8802) food H400 season H6256 The eyes -...
Psalms 145:15 I. Consider, first, the Psalmist's assertion, "The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works." The Psalmist here uses the language of faith. The word "righteousness" a...
When you get to the 145 th Psalm, you enter the Beulah Land of the Psalms. Henceforth, the time of the singing of birds is come; and you go from one Hallelujah to another. In the Hebrew, this is one o...
I am going to preach about prayer, so we will read «David's Psalm of praise.» Thus we shall have two parts of true worship. Psalms 145:1. _I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name...
CONTENTS: David engages himself and others to praise God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Praising God should be our daily work, for God is every day blessing us. His greatness and goodness cann...
This is the last of the acrostic or alphabetical psalms, and should therefore contain twenty two verses, corresponding with the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. But the verse which begins wit...
_The eyes of all wait upon Thee._ THE DIVINE DEALINGS AND ATTRIBUTES We lose a great deal by taking verses by themselves, considering them as detached and isolated passages in place of noticing how c...
_I will extol Thee, my God, O King._ THE KINGHOOD OF GOD, AND THE GLORY OF HIS PROVIDENCE: - I. The Kinghood of God (Psalms 145:1). 1. Absolutely incomparable. (1) Majesty incomprehensible. (2) R...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 145:1. This is the last of David’s psalms. This hymn praises the Lord for his goodness and generosity toward his creatures, especially his people. One remarkable feature is...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 145:13 Building on vv. Psalms 145:8, these verses develop the notion of God’s kindness to all his creatures (vv....
INTRODUCTION “This it the last of the Alphabetical Psalms,” says Perowne, “of which there are eight in all, if we reckon the ninth and tenth Psalms as forming one. Like four other of the Alphabetical...
EXPOSITION WITH another hymn of praise, this late collection of Davidical psalms, previously omitted from the Psalter, terminates. Like verses 25. and 34; also Davidical, this psalm is alphabetic, an...
I will extol thee, my God, O King; I will bless thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and...
Acts 17:25; Genesis 1:30; Job 38:39; Joel 2:22; Luke 12:24;...
All — Of all living creatures. Wait — Expect their supplies wholly from thy bounty. Expectation is here figuratively ascribed to brute creatures....