Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 113:8
Princes — As he did Joseph, David, and others. His people — Who in God's account are far more honourable than the princes of Heathen nations.
Princes — As he did Joseph, David, and others. His people — Who in God's account are far more honourable than the princes of Heathen nations.
Verse Psalms 113:8. _WITH THE PRINCES_] נדיבים _nedebim_, very properly translated by the Anglo-Saxon [A.S.], the aldermen, the most respectable of his people....
THAT HE MAY SET HIM WITH PRINCES - May give him a rank - a position - with nobles and great people upon the earth. Many instances of this nature have occurred in the history of the world. Not a few of...
Psalms 113 Hallelujah! Praise His Name! This third Hallelujah Psalm begins with a Hallelujah and ends with Hallelujah. It is given in the Authorized Version as “Praise ye the Lord” (as in all these...
CXIII. GOD ON HIGH CARES FOR THE LOWLY. Psalms 113:7. The dunghill is like Job's, waste and refuse heaped up outside the village and still the refuge of lepers and diseased persons of one kind or ano...
WITH PRINCES... WITH THE PRINCES. Figure of speech _Anadiplosis_ (App-6), for emphasis....
DISCOURSE: 687 GREATNESS AND CONDESCENSION OF GOD Psalms 113:5. _Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth...
THAT HE MAY SET HIM WITH PRINCES— There is a plain reference here to Hannah's case and prayer. See 1 Samuel 2:8 and 2 Samuel 7:8. _He maketh the barren,_ &c. may be rendered, according to the original...
PSALMS 113 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song of Sublime Simplicity: reaching its Climax by Rejoicing with a Glad Mother! ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 113:1-3, Praise Invited from Jehovah's Servants, for All T...
That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. THAT HE MAY SET HIM WITH PRINCES - (.)...
This Ps. begins the group (113-118) known in the Jewish Church as the Hallel Psalms, or Hymns of Praise, from _hillel,_ to praise. They are sung at the Passover Feast—Psalms 113, 114 before the second...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE SERVANTS’ SONG PSALMS 113 THE FIRST EGYPTIAN HALLEL And when Jesus and his friends had sung a psalm, they went out to the *Mount of Olives ...
(7-8) See 1 Samuel 2:8, from which the verses are taken; and comp. Luke 1:52. So the heathen poet sang of Jove (Hor.: _Odes_ i., 34, 35)....
לְ הֹושִׁיבִ֥י עִם ־נְדִיבִ֑ים עִ֝֗ם נְדִיבֵ֥י...
Psalms 113:1 THIS pure burst of praise is the first of the psalms composing the Hallel, which was sung at the three great feasts (Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles), as well as at the...
THE MIGHTY GOD UPLIFTETH THE LOWLY Psalms 113:1; Psalms 114:1 We detect the song of Samuel's mother in the first of these psalms. She sang the Old Testament “Magnificat” and it was embalmed by the ps...
This is the first of six psalms which constitute the Hallel or Hymn of Praise, which the Hebrews sang at Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. This group is necessarily of special interes...
_Waters. They are mentioned twice, as referring to different miracles, Exodus xvii. 6., and Numbers xx. 8. Inanimate things are introduced, giving this reply; or the psalmist gives it himself. (Berthi...
Reader, hath the Lord God been thus gracious to you, in your own instance? Do you know anything of that rich, free, sovereign grace, which manifests itself in raising sinners from the dust of death, t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 111 THROUGH 113. Psalms 111-113 go together as a hallelujah in reference to Jehovah's ways with Israel in their deliverance. First, Psalms 111, the works of Jeho...
THAT HE MAY SET [HIM] WITH PRINCES,.... As all the saints are by birth, being the sons of God, the King of kings; born of him, and not of the will of man; and are of a princely spirit, have a free spi...
That he may set [him] with princes, [even] with the princes of his people. Ver. 8. _That he may set him with princes_] See 1 Samuel 2:8, Hannah's song, whereof this seemeth to be an abridgment....
_He raiseth up the poor_ Yet, great and glorious as he is, he stoops so low as to regard and advance those whom all men, even their own brethren, slight and despise; _out of the dust_, &c. From a most...
that He may set him with princes, even with the princes of His people, elevating him to a position in the nobility, the powerful people of the land....
PRAISE OF GOD'S MERCY TOWARD THE LOWLY....
SET HIM WITH PRINCES; in equal honour and power with them, as he did Joseph, David, and others. THE PRINCES OF HIS PEOPLE; which in God's account and in truth are far more honourable and happy that, t...
Psalms 113:8 seat H3427 (H8687) princes H5081 people H5971 Psalms 45:16, Psalms
We will read, this evening, two passages in the Word of God; the first will be Psalms 113:1 . Psalms 113:1. _Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD._ Thre...
CONTENTS: A call to praise God. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Praise is a duty the believer should much abound in and in which he should be frequently employed, for in every place there appears the m...
This and the five following psalms form the great HALLEL, or hymn of praise, sung at the passover and other festivals of the Jews. They celebrate, as the word imports, the _shinings forth, eradiations...
_He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill _ FROM THE DUNGHILL TO THE THRONE I. Where God’s chosen ones are when He meets with them. 1. Many of them are in t...
_Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high?_ THE GREATNESS AND GOODNESS OF GOD I. His inconceivable greatness (verse 5). 1. The place of His habitation. With great propriety, heaven, a...
_Praise the name of the Lord._ HIGHEST SERVICE AND THE HIGHEST BEING I. The highest service in which intelligent creatures can engage. What is praise? Not verbal laudation, however enthusiastic in f...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 113:1. This short hymn of praise celebrates the way in which the great God who rules over all takes notice of the lowly. Such a God is indeed worthy to be praised by all man...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 113:4 The God who deserves to be praised by all mankind IS SEATED ON HIGH (ruling over the whole world), and yet he LOOKS FAR DOWN and raises the poor from the dust
INTRODUCTION 1. Another of the Hallelujah Psalms 2. Date and authorship unknown. 3. The first of six Psalms in the Jewish liturgy (113–118) termed Hallel, or the Egyptian _Hallel_, as distinguished f...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the "Hallel" psalms, or of those sung at the Feasts of the Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. It is a "Hallelujah psalm," like the two preceding, but is not alphabe...
Psa 113:1-9 begins and ends with Hallelujah. Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of Yahweh. Blessed be the name of the LORD (Psalms 113:1-2) Or blessed be the name...
Genesis 41:41; Philippians 2:8; Psalms 45:16; Psalms 68:13;...