Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 147:18
His wind; the southern or some other warm wind sent with commission to dissolve the ice. The waters flow; the rivers return to their course which before were bound up by, or tuned into, ice.
His wind; the southern or some other warm wind sent with commission to dissolve the ice. The waters flow; the rivers return to their course which before were bound up by, or tuned into, ice.
Verse Psalms 147:18. _HE SENDETH OUT HIS WORD_] He gives a command: the _south_ _wind_ blows; the _thaw_ takes place; and the _ice_ and _snow_ being liquefied, the _waters flow_, where before they wer...
HE SENDETH OUT HIS WORD - He commands: or, he speaks. AND MELTETH THEM - Melts the snow and the ice. Compare the notes at Job 37:10 : “By the breath of God frost is given,” etc. The idea is, that the...
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...
CXLVII. The LXX, perhaps rightly, divides the Ps. into two, Psalms 147:1 and Psalms 147:12. PSALMS 147:1. An invitation to praise Yahweh for His almighty power and His kindness to Israel. Observe how...
WORD. Hebrew. _dabar =_ the subject-matter of the articulate utterance (Psalms 147:16). See App-73. WIND. Hebrew. _ruach,_ App-9....
Zion is summoned to praise Jehovah for the blessings of peace and prosperity. The Lord of Nature is He Who has endowed Israel with unique privileges....
PSALMS 147 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Praise for the Restoration of Jerusalem and for Israel's Preeminence: with Grateful Recognition of Rain and of Spring. ANALYSIS After the Repetition and Expansion of th...
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. HE SENDETH OUT HIS WORD, AND MELTETH THEM: HE CAUSETH HIS WIND TO BLOW (AND) THE WATERS FLOW - a warm wi...
A song of praise in which the Psalmist recounts God's mercies (1) in restoring Jerusalem, (2) in helping those cast down, (3) in caring for the animal world, and (4) in the changing seasons....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD’S LOVE AND *POWER PSALMS 147 THE 2ND *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "If God makes the grass green (so that it looks right), how much more will
יִשְׁלַ֣ח דְּבָרֹ֣ו וְ יַמְסֵ֑ם יַשֵּׁ֥ב ר֝וּחֹ֗ו...
Psalms 147:1 THE threefold calls to praise Jehovah (Psalms 147:1, Psalms 147:7, Psalms 147:12) divide this psalm into three parts, the two fo
PEACE AND PROSPERITY Psalms 147:12-20 From Psalms 147:12 on there is a more personal address to Jerusalem and Zion. The _thee_ and _thou_ justify the application of the psalm to the spiritual cond...
In this psalm, beginning with a call which declares the pleasantness and comeliness of praise (v. Psa 147:1), the singer first celebrates the Divine activity in restoring His people (vv. Psa 147:2-6)....
New and increasing claims are upon Zion, for renewed instances of divine favor. And, Reader! this is your case, and mine. Every day, nay every moment, Jesus visits his people, Isaiah 27:3. And how are...
In Psalms 147 the saints take their place now in Jerusalem and Zion to say what He is. He is their God; He builds up Jerusalem and gathers together the outcasts of Israel, healing the broken in heart...
HE SENDETH OUT HIS WORD, AND MELTETH THEM,.... The snow, the hoar frost, and ice: this he does by a word of his, who can freeze the earth and waters, and thaw them at his pleasure; by ordering the sun...
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, [and] the waters flow. Ver. 18. _He sendeth out his word, and melteth them_] See Psalms 147:15. Of the force of God's word of c...
_He giveth snow like wool_ Not only in colour, and shape, and softness, and its falling silently like a lock of wool; but in its covering the earth and keeping it warm, and so promoting its fruitfulne...
HALLELUJAH TO THE GOD OF ZION. A Hallelujah Psalm, setting forth God's providential care toward all creatures, but especially toward His people, His holy congregation....
He sendeth out His word, His command, AND MELTETH THEM, the ice, snow, and hail; HE CAUSETH HIS WIND TO BLOW, as in the case of the foehn of the Alps or the chinook of the northwestern prairies, AND T...
12-20 The church, like Jerusalem of old, built up and preserved by the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, is exhorted to praise him for all the benefits and blessings vouchsafed to her; and these ar...
Psalms 147:18 out H7971 (H8799) word H1697 melts H4529 (H8686) wind H7307 blow H5380 (H8686
Psalms 147:18 There are two lessons taught in these words: I. God works by means. God makes all the means, and then uses them as He sees good. God is not obliged to work by means. Sometimes, as we le...
Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD:_ This Psalm begins and ends with Hallelujah. So may this service, and so may our lives, commence and conclude with Hallelujah! Psalms 147:1. For it is good to sing...
This Book of Psalms ends its golden stream in a cataract of praise. The last Psalms are Hallelujah Psalms; this one begins and ends, as several others do, with «Hallelujah.» Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye...
Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely._ «It is good,» that is to say, it is a thing that ought to be done, it is a r...
CONTENTS: A call to praise God. The greatness and condescending goodness of the Lord celebrated. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Praise is comely it becomes us as reasonable creatures on account of God...
This psalm, like the preseding, is without title in the Hebrew or Chaldee; but is ascribed by the Versions to Haggai and Zechariah. REFLECTIONS. The people are here exhorted to praise God for all th...
_He hath strengthened the bars of thy gates._ PIETY EXULTING IN DIVINE GOODNESS I. In the general prosperity of society. He recognizes the good hand of God-- 1. In the rebuilding of the city (verse...
_He giveth snow like wool._ FROST AND THAW Looking out of our window one morning we saw the earth robed in a white mantle; for in a few short bourn the earth had been covered to a considerable depth...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 147:1. Here the praise is focused on gratitude for some great work of “building up Jerusalem” (or rebuilding it after the exile), and for the Creator who sustains his creati...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 147:12 Jerusalem, representing all of God’s people, should PRAISE THE LORD. He alone provides security and prosperity (vv....
INTRODUCTION “Like the last Psalm, and like those which follow it, this is evidently an anthem intended for the service of the Second Temple. It celebrates God’s almighty and gracious rule over His pe...
EXPOSITION This psalm is generally assigned to the time of the dedication of the city wall (Nehemiah 12:27-16), when the gate-towers had been set up, and the gates and bars put in their places (see Ps...
Praise ye the LORD [or hallelujah]: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; it's pleasant; praise is comely [or desirable, beautiful]. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the ou...
Job 37:10; Job 37:17; Job 6:16; Job 6:17; Psalms 147:15...