Psalms 148:8

Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: FIRE - lightning. VAPOUR - the result of fire and water together. Hengstenberg translates, 'smoke;' the dark smoke contrasting with the white snow (; ). STORMY WIND FULFILLING HIS WORD - (.) However the stormy wind, with its wild impetuosity, may seem reckless of all law, it still is executing the word and will of God no less than the angels, who "do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His word" ()....

7-14 Even in this world, dark and bad as it is, God is praised. The powers of nature, be they ever so strong, so stormy, do what God appoints them, and no more. Those that rebel against God's word, show themselves to be more violent than even the stormy winds, yet they fulfil it. View the surface of the earth, mountains and all hills; from the barren tops of some, and the fruitful tops of others, we may fetch matter for praise. And assuredly creatures which have the powers of reason, ought to employ themselves in praising God. Let all manner of persons praise God. Those of every rank, high and low. Let us show that we are his saints by praising his name continually. He is not only our Creator, but our Redeemer; who made us a people near unto him. We may by "the Horn of his people" understand Christ, whom God has exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, who is indeed the defence and the pra...

Verse Psalms 148:8. _FIRE, AND HAIL; SNOW, AND VAPOURS_] All kinds of meteors, water, and fire, in all their forms and combinations. And _air_, whether in the gentle _breeze_, the _gale_, the _whirlwind_, the _tempest_, or the _tornado_; each accomplishing an especial purpose, and fulfilling a particular _will_ of the Most High....

FIRE, AND HAIL - Fire, when accompanied by hail; that is, the lightning. See Psalms 18:12. SNOW, AND VAPORS - Snow and clouds. It was not unnatural that these should be combined, or suggested together to the mind. STORMY WIND - The storm; the tempest. FULFILLING HIS WORD - Obeying his command; accomplishing his purpose. Let the storm-wind, which seems to be so little under any control, speak his praise by showing how obedient it is to his will, and how exactly it carries out his designs. Its perfect submission to his laws - the exactness with which, though apparently so fierce, raging, and lawless, it carries out his plans, and pauses when he commands it - is in fact an act of praise or homage, as it proclaims his majesty, his supre

EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been well called "the joy-song of creation." Israel, having received a signal manifestation of the Divine power (Psalms 148:14), calls on all things in heaven and earth to praise Jehovah. In respect of heaven, commencement is made with the angels, from whom the writer descends to the sun and moon, the stars, the spacious firmament, and the clouds that float in it and above it (Psalms 148:2). In respect of earth, the writer begins with the lowest parts—the deep sea, and the monsters dwelling therein—whence he makes a sudden ascent to the highest parts—the atmosphere and the manifestations peculiar to it—lightning, hail, snow, vapor, stormy wind; hence he again comes back to solid earth—mountains, hills, trees, beasts, creeping things, and flyin

FIRE, AND HAIL,.... These, and what follow in this verse, are in the air, but are what are exhaled or drawn up from the earth or water; "fire" is lightning, which is very swift in its motion, and powerful in its effects; this is the fire which consumed Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities of the plain; which in Elijah's time came down and destroyed the captains and their fifties; and which attended the Lord's appearance on Mount Sinai; when "the voice of his thunder was in the heaven, the lightnings lightened the world, and the earth trembled and shook", Psalms 77:18; and by which the power, majesty, and glory of God are greatly displayed; see Psalms 29:3; "hail", which is water frozen in the air and congealed; this was one of the plagues of Egypt; and with hailstones many of the Canaanites were slain in the tim

We will first read a short Psalm inciting all to praise the Lord, and then we will read part of the first chapter of Luke's Gospel, specially noticing Mary's song of praise. It is a blessed thing to indulge our holy gratitude, and to let it have speech in sacred psalm and song. Praise is the end of prayer and preaching. It is the ear of the wheat: it is God's harvest from all the seed of grace that he has sown. Psalms 148:1. _Praise ye the LORD._ Hallelujah! Psalms 148:1. _Praise ye the LORD from the heavens:_ Begin the song, ye holy angels before the throne; lead us in praise, O ye glorified spirits above! Psalms 148:1. _Praise him in the heights._

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 Psalms begins and ends with a hallelujah; there are ten hallelujahs. First is a hallelujah which celebrates Himself, He who is the God of Jacob. Precious vision of Him who delights to call Himself “the God of Jacob,” the God who loves the sinner and has redeemed His people. Who is He? The Creator of all, by whom and for whom all things were made (Psalms 146:6). The Lord of judgment and redemption; the Lord who looseth the prisoners, openeth the eyes of the blind, raiseth them that are bowed down--and He will reign for ever. Hallelujah. Psalms 147:1 is the hallelujah for what He has done for Hi

CXLVIII. AN INVITATION TO BLESS YAHWEH. It is addressed, Psalms 148:1 to the heavens and all that therein is, Psalms 148:7 to the earth: Psalms 148:13 f. gives the reason for which above all Yahweh is to be praised, viz. for bringing Israel so near to Himself. PSALMS 148:4. YE HEAVENS OF HEAVENS: to be taken literally as the heavens above the visible sky (_cf._ 2 Corinthians 12:2). Psalms 148:6. Read _mg._

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