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 to give all honor and glory to Jehovah, especially for exalting His people.
PSALM CXLVIII _The psalmist calls on all the creation to praise the Lord. The_ _angels and visible heavens_, 1-6; _the earth and the sea_, 7; _the meteors_, 8; _mountains, hills, and trees_, 9;...
PRAISE YE THE LORD - See the notes at Psalms 146:1. PRAISE YE THE LORD FROM THE HEAVENS - On the part of the heavens. Let those who dwell in heaven begin the song. PRAISE HIM IN THE HEIGHTS - All th...
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...
The third of the last five Hallelujah Psalms. The LEVITICUS Psalm. Compare Psalms 148:14 with Leviticus 10:3. PRAISE YE THE LORD. Hallelu-JAH. App-4. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ with _'eth_. Jehova...
_from the heavens_ The anthem of praise is to ring out from heaven above, and to be answered from the earth below (Psalms 148:7). _in the heights_ Of heaven (Job 16:19; Job 25:2)....
Let the heavens and all that is in them praise Jehovah their Creator....
_The Psalmist exhorteth the celestial, the terrestrial, and the rational creatures to praise God._ THIS too is a psalm of praise; in which the author calls upon heaven and earth, with all that is in t...
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
Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights. Psalms 148:1.-Praise for God's having raised Israel to national stability from depression. All things are called...
FROM THE HEAVENS] i.e. angels and the heavenly bodies....
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!" ...
FROM THE HEAVENS... IN THE HEIGHTS. — Some would render _ye of the heavens,_ but the parallelism is in favour of the Authorised Version. “Heavens” and “heights” in this verse, and “angels” and “hosts”...
הַ֥לְלוּ יָ֨הּ ׀ הַֽלְל֣וּ אֶת ־יְ֭הוָה מִן ־
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....
_Alleluia. Septuagint, Syriac, &c., add, "of Aggæus and Zacharias," as it seems to have been composed after the captivity, ver. 13. (Calmet) --- But why might not David thus invite all to praise God?...
CONTENTS Here is a farther continuation of the same hymn of praise. The Psalmist, in a beautiful gradation, calls upon all creation to join the song. Psalms 148:1 The inspired writer, after opening...
1._Praise Jehovah from the heavens _He seems here to include the stars as well as the angels, and, therefore, heaven itself, the air, and all that is gendered in it; for afterwards a division is made...
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,...
PRAISE YE THE LORD,.... Or, hallelujah: which, in some versions, and with some interpreters, is the title of the psalm; expressive of the subject matter of it, the praise of the Lord; and is an exhort...
Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights. Ver. 1. _Praise the Lord_] And again, "Praise ye the Lord"; and so often, in this the rest of the hallelujatical ps...
_Praise ye the Lord_ Bishop Lowth, speaking of the origin of this divine ode, observes, “that it had its birth from the most pleasing affections of the human soul, joy, love, admiration.” “If we conte...
PRAISE YE: _ Heb._ Hallelujah...
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...
PSALM 148 THE ARGUMENT. The nature of this Psalm is for substance the same with the former, containing an invitation to all the creatures to praise God for his manifold blessings. The psalmist exhorte...
Psalms 148:1 Praise H1984 (H8761) LORD H3050 Praise H1984 (H8761) LORD H3068 heavens H8064 Praise H1984 ...
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...
Isaiah 49:13; Luke 2:13; Luke 2:14; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 89:5;...