Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 69:34
Let the heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moveth therein, all creatures, the entire universe being called upon to give all honor to His merciful and holy name.
Let the heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moveth therein, all creatures, the entire universe being called upon to give all honor to His merciful and holy name.
Verse Psalms 69:34. _LET THE HEAVEN AND EARTH PRAISE HIM_] The psalmist has the fullest confidence that God will turn their captivity, and therefore calls upon all creatures to magnify him for his mer...
LET THE HEAVEN AND EARTH PRAISE HIM - All things; all above and all below. THE SEAS - The waters - the oceans. This is in accordance with what often occurs in the Scriptures, when all things, animate...
PSALM 69-72 Psalms 69 The Suffering and Rejected Christ _ 1. Hated without a cause (Psalms 69:1)_ 2. Bearing reproach (Psalms 69:7) 3. His own prayer ...
LXIX. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE AND REVENGE. The author was a pious Jew, burning with zeal for the purity of the Temple worship (Psalms 69:9). He was a representative man, so that the reproaches of tho...
HEAVEN AND EARTH. See note on Genesis 14:19....
All creation is summoned to join in a chorus of praise to God for the redemption of Zion, for it is an event of universal significance. Cp. Isaiah 44:23....
In contrast to the fate which his enemies deserve, the Psalmist looks forward to his own deliverance, and predicts the restoration of Jerusalem and the reestablishment there of the true people of God....
PSALMS 69 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Pictures of Distress and Outcries for Deliverance, followed by Imprecations on Cruel Enemies, and by Promises of Praise. ANALYSIS This psalm is almost certainly Composit...
_LET THE HEAVEN AND EARTH PRAISE HIM, THE SEAS, AND EVERYTHING THAT MOVETH THEREIN._ -Call to heaven and earth to praise God, since the sufferers deliverance is a pledge that God will save Zion, lite...
This whole Ps. should be compared with Psalms 22:31, 35, 38,, 40. It is the prayer of one who is in deep distress, wrongfully persecuted by enemies, and conscious that, though he is sinful, his suffer...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
_[Psalms 69:35]_ יְֽ֭הַלְלוּהוּ שָׁמַ֣יִם וָ אָ֑רֶץ יַ֝מִּ֗ים...
Psalms 69:1 THE Davidic authorship of this psalm is evidently untenable, if for no other reason, yet because of the state of things presupposed in Psalms 69:35. The supposition that Jeremiah was the a...
“JEHOVAH HEARETH THE NEEDY” Psalms 69:18 In Psalms 69:19 the psalmist again spreads out his griefs before God. He had looked for pity, but his foes only aggravated his sufferings. Both Matthew and Jo...
Perhaps in no psalm in the whole psalter is the sense of sorrow profounder or more intense than in this. The soul of the singer pours itself out in unrestrained abandonment to the overwhelming and ter...
Christ had an eye to the glory that should be revealed, in all his sufferings. So saith the Holy Ghost; by the apostle, when he calls upon his people to be looking unto him, Hebrews 12:2. And hence th...
34._Let the heavens and the earth praise him. _From this we may conclude with the greater certainty, that, as I have touched upon above, David in the whole of this psalm spake in the name of the whole...
Psalms 69. The state of soul of which this most important psalm is the expression demands the utmost attention and patient inquiry. We have all along seen the remnant of Israel before us, or Christ as...
LET THE HEAVEN AND EARTH PRAISE HIM,.... As those, by a prosopopoeia, are often called upon to do, to express the greatness of the favour enjoyed, and to excite those that are possessed of it to great...
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. Ver. 34. _Let the heaven and earth praise him_] As they do in their kind; and have good cause so to do for their re...
_Let the heaven and earth praise him_ Let angels and men, the visible and invisible world, and all creatures contained therein, join together to celebrate him with their highest praises; for “the merc...
MOVETH: _ Heb._ creepeth...
30-36 The psalmist concludes the psalm with holy joy and praise, which he began with complaints of his grief. It is a great comfort to us, that humble and thankful praises are more pleasing to God th...
THE HEAVEN AND EARTH; either, 1. Angels and men. Or rather, 2. The heaven and earth themselves, as in the next branch, THE SEAS, AND EVERY THING THAT MOVETH THEREIN: all which by a usual figure he i...
Psalms 69:34 heaven H8064 earth H776 praise H1984 (H8762) seas H3220 moves H7430 (H8802) Let -...
CONTENTS: David complains of great distress and begs God to succor him. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When the waters of affliction rise about us, the only course is to commit the keeping of o...
The Chaldee paraphrase ascribes this psalm to David, and with great care regards it as highly prophetic of the Messiah. St. Paul therefore knew the high authority he had, in quoting it against the Jew...
_Let the heaven and earth praise Him, the seas, and everything that moveth therein._ THE CREATION PRAISING GOD I. On account of what He is in Himself. God is good; intrinsically excellent. His natur...
_I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving._ MORAL STATES OF MIND WORTHY OF CULTIVATION I. A noble resolution (Psalms 69:30). There are many ways of praising...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 69:1. This is an individual lament. A faithful Israelite is suffering for wrongs he has done (v. Psalms 69:5). Attackers take advantage of his
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 69:34 All creation praises God. God is committed to populating ZION with the faithful OFFSPRING OF HIS (faithful) SERVANTS. God intends for the whole world to
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, a Psalm of David.” “_To the chief musician_.” See the introduction to Psalms 57. “_Upon Shoshannim_. See the introduction to Psa...
EXPOSITION THIS is the cry of one suffering severely from men, partly on account of his own sins (Psalms 69:5), but mainly for the sake of God (Psalms 69:7). It is said to be "written in the style of...
The sixty-ninth psalm is a Messianic psalm. That is, it is a psalm of prophecy concerning Jesus Christ. And there are many scriptures within the psalm here that make reference to Jesus Christ. Save me...
Genesis 1:20; Isaiah 44:22; Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 55:12;