Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 150:1-6
This is 'the grand Finale of the spiritual concert,' and worthily closes not only this little Hallelujah group, but the whole Psalter.
This is 'the grand Finale of the spiritual concert,' and worthily closes not only this little Hallelujah group, but the whole Psalter.
PSALM CL _A general exhortation to praise God_, 1, 2. _With the trumpet, psaltery, and harp_, 3. _With the timbrel and dance, stringed instruments and organs_, 4. _With the cymbals_, 5. All livin...
PRAISE YE THE LORD - See the notes at Psalms 146:1. PRAISE GOD IN HIS SANCTUARY - His holy place; the place where he dwells. The allusion here is, probably, to the temple, the place of his abode on e...
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...
CL. Each book ends with a doxology. Here we have a much longer doxology, which closes Book V and the whole Psalter also. The praise of God begins from His sanctuary, _i.e._ probably from His sanctuary...
The fifth of the last five Hallelujah Psalms, answering to the great thought of DEUTERONOMY. Compare Psalms 150:2 with Deuteronomy 3:24, and Deuteronomy 32:43. PRAISE YE THE LORD. Hebrew Hallelu-JAH....
_God_ El, the God of sovereign power (Psalms 90:2). _in his sanctuary_ This may mean the temple (cp. Psalms 63:2, &c.), and the verse will then be a call to men to praise Jehovah in His earthly abode,...
_An exhortation to praise God with all kinds of instruments._ THIS is likewise a psalm of praise, in which the author calls upon men to magnify the Lord in every thing in which he chose principally t...
PSALMS 150 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Expansion and Enforcement of the Public Reader's Invitation to the People to Join in the Responses in the Temple-Worship. ANALYSIS 1. The Public Reader's Invitation_...
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Psalms 150:1.-Three strophes of two verses each. The first, where, and on what account, praise is to be gi...
150:1 sanctuary; (g-6) _ Kodesh_ . as Psalms 134:2 . firmament (h-11) Lit. the 'expanse,' as Genesis 1:6 ....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD IS THE BEST! PSALMS 150 THE LAST *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "If people *held their *peace, the stones would immediately start shouting" ...
SANCTUARY — That is, the temple. Some take it in direct parallelism with firmament, and understand the “heavenly palace,” or “Temple” (comp. Psalms 11:4); but, as in Psalms 148, the invocation to prai...
הַ֥לְלוּ יָ֨הּ ׀ הַֽלְלוּ ־אֵ֥ל בְּ קָדְשֹׁ֑ו...
Psalms 150:1 THIS noble close of the Psalter rings out one clear note of praise, as the end of all the many moods and experiences recorded in its wonderful sighs and songs. Tears, groans, wailings for...
THE PRAISE-SONGS OF GOD'S PEOPLE Psalms 149:1-9; Psalms 150:1-6 Israel was formed into a nation and delivered from Babylon, that her singers should lead the praises of mankind, and her teachers pr...
This psalm which concludes the book, and all the Psalter as final doxology, is the most comprehensive, and illuminative illustration of perfect praise in the whole Psalter. In our analysis of it as do...
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his (a) sanctuary: praise him in the (b) firmament of his power. (a) That is, in the heaven. (b) For his wonderful power appears in the firmament, which in Hebrew i...
_Alleluia. This invitation is addressed to the sacred ministers, as the people and all creatures had been already exhorted to praise God. (Calmet) --- This psalm was sung when the first-fruits were br...
CONTENTS The Holy Ghost with this short but precious Psalm concludes this book of divine hymns and praises. It contains a general invitation to everything that hath breath to praise Jehovah. Psalms...
_HALLELUJAH!_ ‘O praise God in His holiness: praise Him in the firmament of His power,’ etc. Psalms 150:1; Psalms 150:6 (Prayer Book Version) I. CONSIDER THE NATURE OF PRAISE.—(1) From such passage...
1._Praise God in his sanctuary. _This psalm in general commends the spiritual worship of God, which consists in sacrifices of praise. By the _sanctuary _there is little doubt that heaven is here meant...
Psalms 150 is a general closing summons to praise Jehovah only, remark, it is now freely in His sanctuary, as well as in the firmament of His power in His sanctuary, with all the various instruments o...
PRAISE YE THE LORD,.... Or, "hallelujah"; which, in the Targum, Septuagint, and Vulgate Latin versions, is the title of the psalm; and expresses the subject of it, the praise of the Lord; PRAISE GOD...
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Ver. 1. _Praise ye the Lord_] See Psalms 148:1 . _ Praise God in his sanctuary_] It is probable, saith Beza,...
_Praise God in his sanctuary_ In his temple, where this work was to be performed constantly and solemnly. Let his priests and people that attend there, attend him with their praises. Where should he b...
CONCLUDING HYMN OF PRAISE. The last Hallelujah Psalm is a fitting doxology for the whole Book of Psalms, proclaiming the place, theme, mode, and extent of God's praise....
Praise ye the Lord! Praise God in His Sanctuary, in the places set aside for His worship here on earth, no matter where they may be; PRAISE HIM IN THE FIRMAMENT OF HIS POWER, which was considered the...
PRAISE YE: _ Heb._ Hallelujah...
PSALM 150 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm agrees much with the former, and is an invitation to all men to praise God, and especially to the Levites, or those of them who were appointed to this work, as may be...
Psalms 150:1 Praise H1984 (H8761) LORD H3050 Praise H1984 (H8761) God H410 sanctuary H6944 Praise H1984 ...
Psalms 150:1 , PSALMS 150:6 I. Consider the nature of praise. (1) From such passages as Isaiah 6:1; Revelation 4:8;...
Psalms 150:1. _Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary:_ Notice how, in this last Psalm, it is praise, praise, praise, all the way through. I think we have the word «praise» some thirteen tim...
CONTENTS: The psalmist would fill all the world with God's praises. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: What have we our breath for but to spend it in praising God and how can we spend it better? Since we...
The full choir, the full band, and the full heart, are here exhorted to praise the Lord. Surely this, when holy prophets joined in the worship, must resemble heaven itself. But oh how can drunkards, s...
_Praise God in His sanctuary._ WORSHIP I. Its spirit is exultation. Is there gratitude in it? Yes, gratitude of the highest type and degree, and gratitude is an element of joy. Is there admiration in...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 150:1. This hymn closes the Psalter with its call for “everything that has breath” to praise the Lord with every kind of jubilant accompaniment. The list of musical instrume...
INTRODUCTION Dean Perowne speaks of this Psalm as “the great closing Hallelujah, or Doxology, of the Psalter, in which every kind of musical instrument is to hear its part as well as the voice of man,...
EXPOSITION COMMENTATORS generally are agreed that this is a most noble psalm, a fit conclusion to the noble collection which here terminates. Professor Cheyne says, "Psalms 150:1 closes this Halleluja...
Now, again, the final psalm is an exhortation of praise and to praise the Lord in unusual ways, as far as we firstly perhaps are concerned. Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him...
Daniel 12:3; Ezekiel 1:22; Ezekiel 10:1; Genesis 1:6; Psalms 116:18;
Sanctuary — In his temple. The firmament — In heaven: there let the blessed angels praise him....