INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 145 DAVID'S [PSALM] OF PRAISE. This psalm is rendered by Ainsworth "a hymn of David"; and the whole book of Psalms is from hence called "the Book of Hymns"; see Ephesians 5:19; It seems to have been a psalm David took great delight in, and it may be that he often repeated and... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL EXTOL THEE, MY GOD, O KING,.... Or "the King" a, the King Messiah, who is by way of eminency called "the King", as in Psalms 21:1. This is the foundation of this whole psalm, as Aben Ezra observes; and shows who is intended and who is the subject of it that is spoken of throughout, even the... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY DAY WILL I BLESS THEE,.... For new mercies had every morning; for fresh supplies of grace every day, which all come from the fulness of Christ, to whom all grace is given, and from whence it is received, and in whom all spiritual blessings are, and by whom they are bestowed; AND I WILL PRAISE... [ Continue Reading ]
GREAT [IS] THE LORD, AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED,.... Christ is the great God as well as our Saviour; great in all the perfections of his nature, of great wisdom, power, faithfulness, holiness, grace, and goodness; great in his person as God-man, God manifest in the flesh; great in all his offices and... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE GENERATION SHALL PRAISE THY WORKS TO ANOTHER,.... The works of providence done in one age shall be told by the father to the son with praise to the great Performer of them, and so be transmitted to the latest posterity; for in every age there are new and strange things done in Providence, the me... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL SPEAK OF THE GLORIOUS HONOUR OF THY MAJESTY,.... Of the majesty of the divine Person of Christ; of the honour due unto him; of the glory of him as of the only begotten of the Father, as he is the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person; of his glory as Mediator, and the h... [ Continue Reading ]
AND [MEN] SHALL SPEAK OF THE MIGHT OF THY TERRIBLE ACTS,.... The terrible things of Christ, which his right hand has taught him, and his mighty power has performed; such as the destruction of a disobedient and ungodly world by a flood, to whom he preached by his Spirit in the days of Noah; the burni... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL ABUNDANTLY UTTER THE MEMORY OF THY GREAT GOODNESS,.... Not only his essential goodness, or the perfections of his nature; nor his providential goodness only; but his special grace and goodness to his own people in becoming their surety, in assuming their nature, in laying down his life fo... [ Continue Reading ]
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; he is full of grace, and readily distributes it; his words are words of grace; his Gospel, and the... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD [IS] GOOD TO ALL,.... Which is to be understood not of the general and providential goodness of God to all men, to all his creatures, and the works of his hands; but of the special goodness of Christ before mentioned, Psalms 145:7; which extends to all the chosen people of God; who are all... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THY WORKS SHALL PRAISE THEE, O LORD,.... Not all his works or creatures in general; though these do objectively praise him, or are the cause rather of others praising him on their account: but those who are in a special manner the works of his hands, of his powerful and efficacious grace; when h... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL SPEAK OF THE GLORY OF THY KINGDOM,.... That is, the saints who are his special workmanship, in the celebration of his praise; and, while they are blessing him, will take particular notice, and make particular mention of his kingdom, and the glory of it; not only his kingdom of nature and... [ Continue Reading ]
TO MAKE KNOWN TO THE SONS OF MEN HIS MIGHTY ACTS,.... As in Psalms 145:4; the acts of his power in providence and grace; in the salvation of his people, and the destruction of their enemies; which, with others, are made known in the ministry of the word, to those who were strangers to them, to thos... [ Continue Reading ]
THY KINGDOM [IS] AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM,.... So it is opposed to all other kingdoms and monarchies, which have had or will have an end; as the Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman; with all other states which will be on the spot when this kingdom is set up in its glory, and will continue for ever... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD UPHOLDETH ALL THAT FALL,.... Not all that fell in Adam, as all mankind did; nor all that fall into sin, as every man does; and therefore not those that fall into hell: but this is to be understood of the subjects of Christ's kingdom, of which the psalmist is speaking; who does that which no... [ Continue Reading ]
THE EYES OF ALL WAIT UPON THEE,.... Not of all creatures, the beasts of the field, the fishes of the sea, and fowls of the air, as in Psalms 104:27; but of all the Lord's people, who are subject to fall and be depressed: these, as they look unto him for deliverance and salvation, and wait upon him... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU OPENEST THINE HAND,.... Not of providence, but of grace, in which all things are, and from whence they come; and which the Lord opens liberally and bountifully, and gives out all things richly to enjoy; all things pertaining to life and godliness; grace here, with all the supplies of it, and gl... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD [IS] RIGHTEOUS IN ALL HIS WAYS,.... Christ is righteous in all the ways of providence, in which he is jointly concerned with his Father: there are some of the ways of providence, which are now intricate and perplexed, are unsearchable and past finding out, and cannot be easily reconciled to... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD [IS] NIGH UNTO ALL THEM THAT CALL UPON HIM,.... He is not only nigh unto them in relation, being their near kinsman, brother, father, husband, and head, but with respect to place and presence; not in a general way, as he is the omnipresent God, and so nigh to all, and from whose presence th... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WILL FULFIL THE DESIRE OF THEM THAT FEAR HIM,.... That have the true fear of God put into their hearts; that fear him not with a servile, but godly fear; that fear the Lord and his goodness, and are true worshippers of him in a spiritual and evangelic manner; for the fear of God includes the whol... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD PRESERVETH ALL THEM THAT LOVE HIM,.... All do not love Christ, none but those that are born again, and believe in him: love to Christ is a fruit of the Spirit, and accompanies faith in him; it flows from the love of Christ shed into the heart, and from a view of his loveliness, and a sense... [ Continue Reading ]
MY MOUTH SHALL SPEAK THE PRAISE OF THE LORD,.... Always, at all times, as long as he lived; and particularly when all the Lord's people shall be brought safe to glory, and the wicked destroyed; when, as Kimchi observes, he should live again with the dead that shall be raised; AND LET ALL FLESH BLES... [ Continue Reading ]