Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Psalms
Book: Psalms
Chapter: 149
Overview:
A psalm of praise.
- We are here stirred up to praise
God. Praise
God for his
Sanctuary, and the privileges we enjoy
By having it among us;
praise him because of his power and
Glory in the
Firmament.
Those who praise the
Lord in
Heaven, behold displays of his
power and
Glory which we cannot now conceive. But the greatest
of all his mighty
Acts is known in his earthly
Sanctuary. The
Holiness and the
Love of our
God are more displayed in
Man's
Redemption, than in all his other
Works. Let us praise our
God
and
Saviour for it. We need not care to know what instruments of
Music are mentioned. Hereby is meant that in serving
God we
should spare
No cost or pains. Praise
God with strong
Faith;
praise him with holy
Love and delight; praise him with entire
confidence in
Christ; praise him with believing triumph over the
powers of
Darkness; praise him
By universal respect to all his
commands; praise him
By cheerful submission to all his
disposals; praise him
By rejoicing in his
Love, and comforting
ourselves in his
Goodness; praise him
By promoting the interests
of the kingdom of his
Grace; praise him
By lively
Hope and
expectation of the kingdom of his
Glory. Since we must shortly
breathe our last, while we have breath let us praise the
Lord;
then we shall breathe our last with comfort. Let every thing
that hath breath praise the
Lord. Praise ye the
Lord. Such is
the very suitable
End of a
Book inspired
By the
Spirit of
God,
written for the work of praise; a
Book which has supplied the
Songs of the
Church for more than three thousand years; a
Book
which is quoted more frequently than any other
By Christ and his
apostles; a
Book which presents the loftiest ideas of
God and
his government, which is fitted to every state of human
Life,
which sets forth every state of religious experience, and which
bears simple and clear marks of its Divine origin.