Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 147:20
He left all others to their own native darkness and blindness, and to those dim discoveries of God and of themselves which they had from the light of nature.
He left all others to their own native darkness and blindness, and to those dim discoveries of God and of themselves which they had from the light of nature.
Verse Psalms 147:20. _AND_ AS FOR HIS _JUDGMENTS_] The wondrous ordinances of his law, no nation had known them; and consequently, did not know the glorious things in futurity to which they referred....
HE HATH NOT DEALT SO WITH ANY NATION - He has favored Israel more than any other people by giving them his revealed truth. This was so. There was no nation in the ancient world so favored as the Hebre...
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...
NOT DEALT SO, &C. The reference is to Exodus 20. Compare Deuteronomy 4:7; Deuteronomy 4:8. and see App-15. THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THEM. Septuagint and Vulg, read "He maketh not known to them"....
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....
Cp. Deuteronomy 4:7-8. The Lord, whose word all Nature obeys, has given Israel His word in the law; a privilege which distinguishes it from every other nation. _judgments_ Or, _ordinances_....
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 sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. HE SHOWETH HIS WORD UNTO JACOB, HIS STATUTES AND HIS JUDGMENTS UNTO ISRAEL. HE HATH NOT DEALT SO WITH ANY NATION: AND AS...
147:20 judgments, (c-13) Or 'ordinances.'...
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
ANY NATION. — This boast in Israel’s peculiar and exclusive privilege may be compared with Deuteronomy 4:7; Deuteronomy 32:32. JUDGMENTS. — Here plainly not manifestations of wrath; but, as so frequen...
לֹ֘א עָ֤שָׂה כֵ֨ן ׀ לְ כָל ־גֹּ֗וי וּ
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)....
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not (n) known them. Praise ye the LORD. (n) The cause of this difference is God's free mercy, which has elected his in his...
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul; look round, and behold, in all the objects around and about thee, above and below; how innumerable and unceasing are the demands which call for the praises of Jehovah. See...
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 HATH NOT DEALT SO WITH ANY NATION,.... Or "every nation" b; or all the nations under the heavens; only with the Jewish nation: these only for many hundreds of years were favoured with the divine re...
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD. Ver. 20. _He hath not dealt so with any nation_] He had not then; but now, blessed be G...
_He showeth his word unto Jacob_ “That word, the effects of which, upon the spiritual system, are similar to those experienced by nature in the vernal season: that word was showed unto Jacob, and beca...
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 hath not dealt so with any nation, that is, no heathen nation was chosen by Him in this same manner; AND AS FOR HIS JUDGMENTS, the precepts of His divine justice, as laid down in His written Word,...
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 147:20 dealt H6213 (H8804) nation H1471 judgments H4941 known H3045 (H8804) Praise H1984 (H8761) LORD...
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...
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...
_His statutes and His judgments unto Israel._ THE LAW OF MOSES That Law which God delivered to His own people, and for which just returns of praise are here made to Him, shall be the subject of our...
_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...
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...
1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:9; Acts 14:16; Acts 26:18; Acts 26:27;...