Psalms 136:8
What meaning of the psalms 136:8 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 136:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The sun to rulea by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:"
What does Psalms 136:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The sun to rulea by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:"
THE SUN TO RULE BY DAY - Genesis 1:16. Margin, as in Hebrew, for the ruling of the day. That is, to control, as it were, the day; to determine its length - its beginning - its ending - to make it what...
Psalms 136 His Mercy Endureth Forever This is a historical Psalm of praise, as His grateful people Israel think of all He has done. Twenty-six times we read “His mercy endureth forever.” The Psalm...
CXXXVI. A LONG HYMN OF PRAISE FOR YAHWEH'S POWER AND HIS CARE OF HIS PEOPLE FROM EGYPT TILL THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN. Psalms 136:1 based on Genesis 1. Yahweh the Maker of all. Psalms 136:6. For the wa...
TO RULE. to have dominion. Genesis 1:16....
Jehovah the Creator....
PSALMS 136 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Second Call to Temple-Worship, with Responses Inserted. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 136:1-3, A Threefold Call for Thanks, based on the three leading Divine Names. Stan...
To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: TO HIM THAT MADE GREAT LIGHTS ... THE SUN TO RULE BY DAY ... THE MOON AND STARS TO RULE BY NIGHT - i:e., in relation to this earth a...
136:8 over (d-5) Or 'during.'...
A song of praise to God ever merciful. It is sometimes known as the great Hallel, although the Talmud includes also Psalms 120-135 under this title. It differs from all other Pss. in the Psalter in th...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE *KIND LOVE OF THE *LORD PSALMS 136 THE GREAT *HALLEL JESUS SAID, "THIS IS HOW GOD LOVED THE WORLD" (JOHN 3:16). PSALMS 136 V1 Thank the *LORD, because he...
אֶת ־הַ֭ שֶּׁמֶשׁ לְ מֶמְשֶׁ֣לֶת בַּ † יֹּ֑ום כִּ֖י לְ עֹולָ֣ם חַסְדֹּֽו׃...
Psalms 136:1 THIS psalm is evidently intended for liturgic use. It contains reminiscences of many parts, of Scripture, and is especially based on the previous psalm, which it follows closely in Psalm...
A REVIEW OF GOD'S MERCIES Psalms 136:1-12 An antiphonal psalm, intended to be sung by two choirs or by a soloist and the Temple choir. This avowal of the eternity of God's mercy, amid all the flu...
This is a song of the age-abiding mercy of Jehovah. It opens and closes with a call to praise, and in its main movements sets forth the reason for such praise. In the opening call the three great name...
_Daughter. Citizens. --- Miserable "plunderer," (Symmachus) or "ruined," (Aquila) or "which shalt be given up to plunder." (Theodoret) --- Cyrus reduced the city to a state of abjection, and it has si...
In these verses the Psalmist is calling for praise to Jehovah from his numberless acts of goodness in the wisdom of creation. From the great works of God, the formation of the heavens, the earth, the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 135 AND 136. Psalms 135 and 136 celebrate Jehovah, who has delivered Israel and now dwells in Jerusalem, and give thanks to Him whose mercy has endured for ever...
THE SUN TO RULE BY DAY,.... Which is the greater light, Genesis 1:16; FOR HIS MERCY [ENDURETH] FOR EVER: this great light, so beneficial to the earth and the inhabitants of it, which was made near si...
The sun to rule by day: for his mercy [endureth] for ever: Ver. 8. _The sun to rule by day_] Heb. for the rulings by day, _sc._ by his light, heat, motion, and influences, whereby he worketh upon the...
_To him that made great lights_, &c. Great luminaries, placed in the firmament of heaven, to shed their light and influences upon the earth: see notes on Genesis 1:14. “Light is the life and soul of t...
EXHORTATION TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD. An antiphonal hymn, which takes up the theme of the preceding psalm and was intended to be sung in alternation by the choir and the congregation, the former chantin...
TO RULE BY DAY: _ Heb._ for the rulings by day...
1-9 Forgetful as we are, things must be often repeated to us. By "mercy" we understand the Lord's disposition to save those whom sin has rendered miserable and vile, and all the provision he has made...
THE SUN TO RULE BY DAY; of which phrase and the like in the next verse, SEE POOLE ON "GENESIS 1:16"....
Psalms 136:8 sun H8121 rule H4475 day H3117 mercy H2617 forever H5769 The sun - Psalms 148:3; Jeremiah 31:35; Matthew 5:45 to rule - Heb. for the rulings...
When the chorus was taken up by the whole of the people, accompanied by a blast of trumpets, this must have been a magnificent hymn of praise. Psalms 136:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is go...
CONTENTS: Call to praise God as the great Benefactor of the whole creation. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: We should give thanks to God, not only for the mercies which are handed out to us here on ear...
This psalm has no title in the Hebrew, and the author is unknown. It is reckoned the grand _Te Deum_ of the Hebrew choir. The repetitions at the end of every verse, have correspondent examples in Gree...
_O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good._ THE ETERNITY OR GOD’S GOODNESS This is a reason for praising Him-- I. In the material universe (Psalms 136:1). When the grandeur of nature overawes yo...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 136:1. This hymn calls on the worshiping congregation to give thanks to the Lord, who has shown his faithfulness throughout the history of God’s people. Each verse in this p...
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Perowne, “is little more than a variation and repetition of the preceding Psalm. It opens with the same liturgical formula with which the 106th and 118th Psalms open, a...
EXPOSITION A PSALM with a familiar refrain (comp. Psalms 118:1, Psa 118:29; 2 Chronicles 5:13; Ezra 3:11) at the end of each line. In the main Psalms 134:1; follows the line of Psalms 135:1, calling u...
Shall we turn now our Bibles to Psalms 136:1-26. Throughout the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth psalm, we have the repeated phrase, "For His mercy endureth forever." And this is repeated in each of the v...
Jeremiah 31:35; Matthew 5:45; Psalms 148:3...