Verse Psalms 145:8. The Lord is gracious] His holy nature is ever disposed to show favour.
Full of compassion] Wherever he sees misery, his eye affects his heart.
Slow to anger] When there is even the greatest provocation.
Of great mercy.] Great in his abundant mercy. These four things give us a wonderful display of the goodness of the Divine nature.
THE LORD IS GRACIOUS - See Psalms 86:5, note; Psalms 86:15, note. AND FULL OF COMPASSION - Kind; compassionate; ready to do good. See the notes at Psalms 103:8.
PSALM 143-145 In Psalms 143:1 the enemy is mentioned again, the enemy who pursued David. “For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in da...
CXLV. THE NATURE OF YAHWEH. This Ps., which borrows from very late sources (Psalms 145:13, _e.g._ is translated verbally from the Aramaic of Daniel 4:3), is a useful summary of the Divine attributes,...
GRACIOUS, &C. Compare Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7. OF GREAT MERCY. great in lovingkindness, or grace....
Taken almost verbatim from Exodus 34:6, Jehovah's great revelation of Himself as a God of condescending grace and infinite compassion, Whose Will is love, and Whose wrath is only manifested in the las...
PSALMS 145 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Alphabetical Psalm in Praise of Jehovah's Greatness, Goodness and Righteousness. ANALYSIS Naturally, this psalm falls into 21 Couplets (and Verses), the letter _nun_...
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. THE LORD IS GRACIOUS, AND FULL OF COMPASSION; SLOW TO ANGER, AND OF GREAT MERCY - (Psalms 103:8.) But the Hebrew her...
This is an alphabetic Ps., but the v. with the letter _Nun,_ which should come after Psalms 145:13, has been lost. It is a noble Ps., celebrating the praise of God as the bountiful Giver of all good t...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ AN ALPHABET OF *PRAISE PSALMS 145 Jesus said, "Yours is the *kingdom, the power and the *glory, for always, *Amen" ...
Comp. Psalms 86:15; Psalms 103:8; Psalms 111:4....
חַנּ֣וּן וְ רַח֣וּם יְהוָ֑ה אֶ֥רֶךְ אַ֝פַּ֗יִם...
Psalms 145:1 This is an acrostic psalm. Like several others of that kind, it is slightly irregular, one letter (Nun) being omitted. The omission is supplied in the LXX by an obviously spurious verse i...
GOD'S UNSEARCHABLE GREATNESS Psalms 145:1-9 This psalm is an acrostic, the verses beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The couplet for the fourteenth letter, _Nun,_ betwee...
This is a great psalm of praise standing alone, and serving as an introduction to the last five, which constitute the final anthem of thanksgiving, the expression of perfected praise. It is a solo, bu...
The LORD [is] gracious, and full of (e) compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. (e) He describes after what sort God shows himself to all his creatures though our sins have provoked his vengea...
_Enlighteneth. Hebrew, "openeth the eyes. " Septuagint, "gives wisdom to the blind." Many of these favours seem to be understood in a spiritual sense, and allude to the times of Christ, when these mir...
Reader! do not fail to connect with the view of this verse, the first relation of it in the holy mount, Exodus 34:5. And do not fail also to connect with it the grand cause. What is the Lord's goodnes...
8._Jehovah is gracious_, _etc_. He opens up the goodness of which he spoke by using several expressions, as that God is inclined to mercy, (for such is the proper meaning of the word חנון, _channun_,)...
Psalms 145 goes on in thought into the millennium, after the distress is over, and the full deliverance can be celebrated. It is Christ in spirit perhaps even in person as in the midst of Israel, lead...
THE LORD [IS] GRACIOUS,.... These are the epithets of our Lord Jesus Christ, and may be truly and with great propriety said of him; he is "gracious", kind, and good, in the instances before mentioned;...
The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. Ver. 8. _The Lord is gracious, &c._] See Psalms 86:5; Psalms 86:15; Psalms 103:8 . _ Slow to anger, and of great mer...
_The Lord is gracious_, &c. See notes on Exodus 34:6; and Numbers 14:18. _The Lord is good to all_ Not only to Israel, but to all mankind, _whose hearts he fills with food and gladness_, as is said Ac...
The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, His mercy being revealed in and through Jesus Christ, the Messiah of the world; SLOW TO ANGER AND OF GREAT MERCY, His mercy serving, as it were, as a check...
A PSALM OF PRAISE FOR THE BLESSINGS DUE TO THE MESSIAH'S EXALTATION. David's psalm of praise, dedicated to Messiah for His mighty, righteous, and gracious government of all men, and of His Church in...
OF GREAT MERCY: _ Heb._ great in mercy...
1-9 Those who, under troubles and temptations, abound in fervent prayer, shall in due season abound in grateful praise, which is the true language of holy joy. Especially we should speak of God's won...
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Psalms 145:8 LORD H3068 gracious H2587 compassion H7349 Slow H750 anger H639 great H1419 mercy H2617 Lord is gracious -...
When you get to the 145 th Psalm, you enter the Beulah Land of the Psalms. Henceforth, the time of the singing of birds is come; and you go from one Hallelujah to another. In the Hebrew, this is one o...
I am going to preach about prayer, so we will read «David's Psalm of praise.» Thus we shall have two parts of true worship. Psalms 145:1. _I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name...
CONTENTS: David engages himself and others to praise God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Praising God should be our daily work, for God is every day blessing us. His greatness and goodness cann...
This is the last of the acrostic or alphabetical psalms, and should therefore contain twenty two verses, corresponding with the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. But the verse which begins wit...
_Slow to anger, and of great mercy._ SIN A PROVOCATION AND A MISERY I. The provocative power of sin. God is susceptible of provocation. 1. He is not cold intellect. 2. He is not indifferent to mor...
_I will extol Thee, my God, O King._ THE KINGHOOD OF GOD, AND THE GLORY OF HIS PROVIDENCE: - I. The Kinghood of God (Psalms 145:1). 1. Absolutely incomparable. (1) Majesty incomprehensible. (2) R...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 145:1. This is the last of David’s psalms. This hymn praises the Lord for his goodness and generosity toward his creatures, especially his people. One remarkable feature is...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 145:8 These two verses fill out the idea of God’s goodness and righteousness. ⇐ ⇔
INTRODUCTION “This it the last of the Alphabetical Psalms,” says Perowne, “of which there are eight in all, if we reckon the ninth and tenth Psalms as forming one. Like four other of the Alphabetical...
EXPOSITION WITH another hymn of praise, this late collection of Davidical psalms, previously omitted from the Psalter, terminates. Like verses 25. and 34; also Davidical, this psalm is alphabetic, an...
I will extol thee, my God, O King; I will bless thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and...
Daniel 9:9; Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 1:8; Ephesians 2:4; Exodus 34:6;...