Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 117:2
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the (a) truth of the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
(a) That is, the most certain and continual testimony of his fatherly graces.
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the (a) truth of the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
(a) That is, the most certain and continual testimony of his fatherly graces.
Verse Psalms 117:2. _FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS IS GREAT_] גבר _gabar_, is _strong_: it is not only _great_ in _bulk_ or _number_, but it is _powerful_; it _prevails_ over _sin, Satan, death_, and _hel...
FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS IS GREAT TOWARD US - His kindness; his compassion; his love. All nations - all people - may say this, and therefore the psalm is adapted to universal praise. Especially may t...
Psalms 117 This is the shortest Psalm. All the earth, all the nations, are now called upon to praise, because His merciful kindness has been great towards His people Israel. And their blessing means t...
CXVII. All nations are invited to worship Yahweh, who has revealed His power and faithfulness to Israel. The Ps. is Messianic in the general sense that it contemplates the union of all nations in the...
MERCIFUL KINDNESS. lovingkindness, or grace. IS GREAT TOWARD. overcame, or prevailed over. Compare Psalms 103:11. PRAISE YE THE LORD. Hebrew Hallelu-Jah. App-4....
DISCOURSE: 693 THE GENTILES CALLED TO PRAISE GOD Psalms 117. _O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord end...
PSALMS 117 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE All Nations Invited to Join in Israel's Tribute of Praise. ANALYSIS By Synonyms of Unmistakable Universality, All Nations are Invited to Praise Jehovah for his Kindnes...
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD. FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS IS GREAT TOWARD US: AND THE TRUTH OF THE LORD ENDURETH FOREV...
117:2 great (g-5) Or 'is powerful,' lit. 'it has prevailed.' see Psalms 103:11 ....
The shortest chapter in the Bible, and the middle chapter. It is a doxology, calling all peoples to praise Jehovah. It may have been appended to some Ps....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE SHORTEST PSALM PSALMS 117 THE FIFTH EGYPTIAN HALLEL Jesus said, "I have other sheep. They do not live at this farm. I must fetch them also and they will
CXVII. This, shortest of all the psalms, might well be called _multum in parvo,_ for in its few words it contains, as St. Paul felt (Romans 15:11), the germ of the great doctrine of the universality o...
כִּ֥י גָ֘בַ֤ר עָלֵ֨ינוּ ׀ חַסְדֹּ֗ו וֶֽ אֱמֶת...
Psalms 117:1 THIS shortest of the psalms is not a fragment, though some MSS attach it to the preceding and some to the following psalm. It contains large "riches in a narrow room," and its very brevit...
PRAISE HIM FOR ALL HIS BENEFITS Psalms 116:12; Psalms 117:1 The psalmist dwells joyfully on his enslavement to God, because in and through it he had found perfect liberty. _Thou hast loosed my bonds_...
The fifth song of the Hallel is the shortest in the Psalter. In it in a very deep sense, is fulfilled the saying so common that “Brevity is the soul of wit.” It lives indeed with the wisdom of perfect...
PSALM CXVII. (CONFITEMINI DOMINO.) The psalmist praiseth God for his delivery from evils; putteth his whole trust in him; and foretelleth the coming of Christ. That he is good, is not here in Hebrew...
REFLECTIONS READER! contemplate the blessed contents of this psalm, and let the saving interest we as Gentiles bear in it, bring it home to our hearts with a tenfold joy and satisfaction. In order to...
_THE CRY OF FAITH AND JOY_ ‘I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.’ Psalms 117:1 We shall never, I suppose, know from whose lips and hearts this cry of faith and joy first spr...
The_truth _of God, in this passage, is properly introduced as an attestation of his grace. For he can be true even when he menaces the whole world with perdition and ruin. The prophet, however, has pl...
Psalms 117 is the calling the other nations and peoples to come and praise Jehovah, who will be now King over all the earth. They join and are brought happily into this relationship, Jehovah being mad...
FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS IS GREAT TOWARDS US,.... Not us Israelites only, of whom David was, but Gentiles also; or otherwise there would be no force in the reason why all people and nations should pr...
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD. Ver. 2. _For his merciful kindness is great_] _Invaluit,_ hath prevailed over us, brea...
_O praise the Lord, all ye nations_ Let not the praises that are due to the great Lord of all, be confined to our nation; but let all people upon the face of the earth praise him. _For his merciful ki...
For His merciful kindness is great toward us, His grace, as revealed in Jesus, the Messiah, is powerful, mighty, in forgiving sins and iniquities and in protecting the believers from everlasting damna...
THE UNIVERSAL KINGDOM OF MESSIAH. The shortest hymn in the Psalter, portraying, in a few words, the Church of God of all times in its relation to Jehovah, the God of salvation. The truth expressed in...
TOWARD US; either, 1. Towards us Jews, to whom he hath given those peculiar privileges which he hath denied to all other nations. But this may seem an improper argument to move the Gentiles to praise...
Psalms 117:2 merciful H2617 kindness H2617 great H1396 (H8804) truth H571 LORD H3068 forever H5769 Praise H1984 ...
CONTENTS: A solemn call to the nations to praise God. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The Lord is kind to us as His creatures and merciful to us as sinners, therefore praise is due Him from all peoples...
This psalm, like Psalms 113., is a prophecy of the conversion of the gentiles: so it is cited by St. Paul in Romans 15:11. Some critics regard it as an exordium to the hundred and eighteenth psalm. It...
_O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise Him, all ye people._ AN EXHORTATION TO PRAISE GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS 1. In God’s worship it is not always necessary to be long; few words sometimes say what...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 117:1. This short hymn invites ALL NATIONS to PRAISE THE LORD. The Lord’s steadfast love
INTRODUCTION 1. Authorship, &c., unknown. 2. Probably a liturgical introduction to, or dismissal from, a service, either by separate choirs or the whole people. 3. “The lyrical expression of the consc...
EXPOSITION IT has been doubted whether this exceedingly short psalm can ever have been in tended for a separate composition, and was not rather written as a conclusion to Psalms 116:1. or an introduct...
Beginning with Psalms 113:1-9, you have what are known as the Hallel psalms, meaning the psalms of praise. Hallel meaning praise in Hebrew, and hallelujah, the hallelujah praise to Yahweh. So these ar...
1 John 5:6; Isaiah 25:1; John 14:6; Luke 1:54; Luke 1:55;...