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Psalms 147:12-20

PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 147:12 Jerusalem, representing all of God’s people, should praise the LORD. He alone provides security and prosperity (vv. Psalms 147:13) for Jerusalem’s people. The Lord governs all the processes of nature and so is able to supply peace (that is, well being) to his people. He has also committed himself in special ways to Israel (he has not dealt thus with any other nation) with his word and his statutes and rules.

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See also Psalms 147:12-20 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    PRAISE THE LORD, O JERUSALEM ... - In addition to this general praise in which all may unite, there are special reasons why Jerusalem and its inhabitants should praise God: just as now, in addition to...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PRAISE THE LORD. Not the same word as in Psalms 147:1. Used only by David and Solomon. Zion. See App-68. Zion then still standing....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Praise the Lord_ Laud Jehovah. _thy God, O Zion_ As Psalms 146:10....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 748 TEMPORAL MERCIES A GROUND OF PRAISE [Note: Thanksgiving Sermon for Peace, written January 18, 1816. It is not to be supposed that the same circumstances will ever occur again; and there...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. PRAISE THE LORD, O JERUSALEM. FOR HE HATH STRENGTHENED THE BARS OF THY GATES. The walls of Jerusalem had just been built, and the gates set up,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    PRAISE. — For this verb, properly _stroke,_ or _soothe,_ see Psalms 63:5....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שַׁבְּחִ֣י יְ֭רוּשָׁלִַם אֶת ־יְהוָ֑ה הַֽלְלִ֖י אֱלֹהַ֣יִךְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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)....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12._Celebrate Jehovah, O Jerusalem! _Having spoken in general of the mercies of God, he again addresses his discourse to the Lord’s people, who alone, as we have remarked already, can appreciate them,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    PRAISE THE LORD, O JERUSALEM,.... The inhabitants of it, as Kimchi; not Jerusalem in a literal sense, for this respects future time, as Aben Ezra; the world to come, the times of the Messiah: and inte...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion._ Ver. 12. _Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem_] Whatever the world doth, let not the Church defraud God of his due praises; "though thou, Israel, play...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, O Zion_ O holy city, O holy hill. For where should praise be offered to God, if not there where his altar is? And where should glory be given to him, if not in his house...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion, the summons going out to the entire congregation of Jehovah....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 147:12 Praise H7623 (H8761) LORD H3068 Jerusalem H3389 Praise H1984 (H8761) God H430 Zion H6726...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant;_ Ye that know him, ye that love him, «praise ye the Lord.» «It is good: «it is right, it is accepta...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This is one of the Hallelujah Psalms; it begins and ends with «Praise ye the LORD.» May our hearts be in tune, that we may praise the Lord while we read these words of praise! Psalms 147:1. _Praise y...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem._ CROWNING CHRIST IN CITY LIFE Some time ago, in one of the reviews, a writer gave a picture of the London of the future, when all sanitary and political improvements sh...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 12:6; Isaiah 52:7; Joel 2:23; Psalms 135:19; Psalms 146:10;...

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