It may be so understood as to describe not our Father in heaven, but an almighty devil! Psalm 150:1-6 Reasons to Praise God is a sermon on the reasons to praise God from Psalm 150. Praise ye the Lord—Reader, this is addressed to thee. GREATLY diversified has David’s experience been, as depicted in the Book of Psalms. Psalms 150:4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. But while all God’s works do thus praise Him by testifying that He seeks to bless His creatures, the loftiest example of that desire is, of course, found in His revelation of Himself to men’s hearts and consciences, to men’s spirits and wills. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord - All living things in the air, the earth, the waters. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? And yet-might we not go a step farther, and say that above the parted summits stretches the one overarching blue, uniting them both, and their roots deep down below the surface interlace and twine together? Just in the same way with music as a help to praise. 2. We have here also a twofold prophecy of the perfection of Heaven. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tbi/psalms-150.html. Living voices shall take up the failing sounds of dead instruments, and as they cease on earth, those of intelligent ransomed spirits and holy angels, as with the sound of mighty thunders, will prolong eternally the praise, saying, "Alleluia! Whatever breathes, etc. : נשׁמת חיּים ), i.e., to all mankind. Praise the LORD. The love that seeks to bless us desires, as all love does, that it should be known for what it is, that it should be recognised in our glad hearts, and smiled back again from our brightened faces. ], 2. Psalm 150 is the climax of the climax, where we are exhorted 13 times in six short verses to praise the Lord. Doubtless there is much happiness in social converse: but this is nothing in comparison of that which is enjoyed in converse with our God — — — The language of prayer is delightful to every humble soul; but the language of praise is an anticipation and foretaste of heaven itself. Tam Dei meminisse opus est quam respirare, saith Chrysostom. taste and see that God is good.’ ‘Blessed is the man that trusteth in Him.’. I went forth to meet the stranger (the Philistine), and he cursed me by his idols: 7. If our hearts are in harmony with all that praise God in heaven and on earth, our praise, being according to our capacity, will be as acceptable as that of the highest archangel. But high above all these mists and clouds will rise the hope that seeks the skies, and deep beneath all the surface agitations of storms and currents there will be the unmoved stillness of the central ocean of peace in our hearts. But as men exclusively are often meant under the name of “flesh,” so we may very well suppose that the words have reference here to men, who, although they have vital breath in common with the brute creation, obtain by way of distinction the name of breathing, as of living creatures. Having risen as it were by five steps, in this closing Psalm it hovers over the blissful summit of the end, where, as Gregory of Nyssa says, all creatures, after the disunion and disorder caused by sin have been removed, are harmoniously united for one choral dance ( εἰς μίαν χοροστασίαν ), and the chorus of mankind concerting with the angel chorus are become one cymbal of divine praise, and the final song of victory shall salute God, the triumphant Conqueror ( τῷ τροπαιούχῳ ), with shouts of joy. That mightiest act of love, beginning in the long-past generations, has culminated in Him in whom ‘dwelleth the whole fulness of the Godhead bodily,’ and in whose work is all the love-the perfect, inconceivable, patient, omnipotent love of our redeeming God. Yahweh is praised, and His people are encouraged, exhorted to praise Him. It has nothing in common with the ambitious and hungry greed of men for reputation or self-display. It is spoken as a dark saying even by sorrow and pain. BibliographyTrapp, John. 1876. They are the last words. II. and that man’s restoration may, indeed, bring back all that hath life and breath to a harmonious blessedness-according to the deep and enigmatical words, which declare that ‘the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God’? 2. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cpc/psalms-150.html. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. II. Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty firmament! I was little among my brethren, and a youth in my father's house; I fed my father's sheep. It should seem as if all the concluding psalms had been penned at the close of life, when his soul was altogether ripened for glory. $69.99. "Sermon Bible Commentary". Then the joyous exclamation of our first text, which we have often had to strive hard not to disbelieve, will be no more a truth of faith but a truth of experience. As the word נשמה,neshamah, means breath, or blowing, and whatever is animate, or breathes, the words may be extended to every kind of living creatures, as we have seen in the preceding psalms that the declaration of God’s praises is assigned even to things wanting intelligence. His praise “is accepted according to that a man hath.”. III. Cover Text: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise the Lord! 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. The first and second psalms echo the two main portions of the old revelation-the Law and the Prophets. "Commentary on Psalms 150:6". Praise him for his mighty works; praise his unequaled greatness! Can a rational soul decline this honor? III. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.#Praise ye…: Heb. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/shh/psalms-150.html. 1599-1645. It is now generalized to “the totality of breath,” i.e., all the beings who are endowed by God with the breath of lie (Heb. The last words of the book are as significant as its first. With this full-toned Finale the Psalter closes. Praise ye the LORD. Consider the application of music to the purposes of praise.—(1) Whatever has a tendency to withdraw the mind from care must promote in a measure the disposition required for praise. Psalm 150:6New King James Version (NKJV) 6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. "Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp." The words of our first text, then, may well stand at the beginning of the Psalter. But, first, a quick summary of the other guiding elements. 1870. You can unsubscribe at any time. No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Psalms 150:6. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord] Or, Let every breath praise the Lord. There is another psalm added in the Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, and in the metaphrase of Apollinarius; but is owned to be a supernumerary one, and not to be found in all copies; and is said to be written by David, when he fought with Goliath, and conquered him, and is as follows. "Commentary on Psalms 150:6". All people should praise God. The constitution of their bodies and the faculties of their souls are fit subjects for adoration and thanksgiving — — — The various blessings provided for the maintenance and support of man, call also for the most grateful acknowledgments [Note: Acts 14:17.] Thus ends the book of Psalms. It is this that fills the humble with such especial joy. $14.99. Those who praise the Lord in heaven, behold displays of … Interlinear Bibles Cross-Refs Commentaries Dictionaries Misc. Psalms 147:1-11 Sing And Praise The Lord. the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. They used psalms by Moses, by David, by Isaiah, by the sons of Korah and by many other people. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/psalms-150.html. ].”], II. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain. And unless the love of God be like ours, however it may transcend it, there is no revelation of Him to our hearts at all. "Commentary on Psalms 150:6". Add To Cart. “The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away,” Isaiah 35:10. Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae. the blessedness of the man that delights in the law of the Lord,’ holds on persistently, like a subdued and almost bewildered undercurrent of sweet sound amid all the movements of some colossal symphony, through tears and sobs, confession and complaint, and it springs up at the close triumphant, like the ruddy spires of a flame long smothered, and swells and broadens, and draws all the intricate harmonies into its own rushing tide. 1 Hallelujah! For, “Creation’s great superior, man! D J. Wiseman. 1832. God desires that we should know Him, and so have Eternal Life; He desires that knowing Him, we should love Him, and loving should praise, and so should glorify Him. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Copyright StatementThese files are a derivative of an electronic edition prepared from text scanned by Woodside Bible Fellowship.This expanded edition of the Jameison-Faussett-Brown Commentary is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed. They are the summing up of the whole purpose and issue of God’s revelation to men. ], [Let not any of you say, This employment is not for me: for it is the duty of “every thing that hath breath.” There is no creature in the universe so afflicted, but he has encouragement to pray, and scope for praise — — — Some have an idea, that nothing but sighing and mourning are suited to their condition; and that the voice of praise and thanksgiving is for those only who have attained a fuller assurance of their acceptance with God. Whoever perishes for lack of knowledge now, must confess, that his desert of condemnation is beyond measure aggravated [Note: John 3:19. And are you dumb, my friend, in these universal bursts of praise? Let all created life bow itself before the majesty of God, before the beauty of holiness, the glory of uncreated love. Psalm 150 provides guidance on praising the Lord in few words. Thus, at the end of all the trials, the conflicts, the persecutions, the sorrows, the joys recorded in this book, the psalmist gives utterance to feelings of joy, triumph, transport, rejoicing; and thus at the end of all - when the affairs of this world shall be closed - when the church shall have passed through all its trials, shall have borne all its persecutions, shall have suffered all that it is appointed to suffer - when the work of redemption shall be complete, and all the ransomed of the Lord shall have been recovered from sin, and shall be saved - that church, all heaven, the whole universe, shall break forth in one loud, long, triumphant Hallelujah. b. The winter’s day has had its melancholy grey sky, with many a bitter dash of snow and rain-but it has stormed itself out, and at eventide, a rent in the clouds reveals the sun, and it closes in peaceful clearness of light. Church Pulpit Commentary. BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. I. And I say, from my own experience, that the man who trusts in Him is not blessed’? Whatever other notes have been sounded in its course, all ends in this. And then, remember that this is not inconsistent with or contradicted by the sterner aspects of that revelation, which cannot be denied, and ought not to be minimised or softened. "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". "Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord." O that we might “drink into his spirit,” and be transported, like him, with love and gratitude, with adoration and thanksgiving! For perfect love is all-pervasive, and even with us men, it rules the whole being; nor does he love at all who seeks the welfare of the heart he clings to by fits and starts, by some of his acts and not by others. the blessedness of the men whom Thou hast loved and saved,’ shall be answered by choral praise from everything that hath breath. Essentially a sacramental one. "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". But for us, the very shortcomings of our joys and of our songs are prophetic of the perfect and perpetual rapture of the one, and the perfect and perpetual music of the other. We have here also a twofold prophecy of the perfection of Heaven. The stained thankfulness of our poor hearts is accepted by Him who inhabits the praises of eternity, and yet delights in the praises of Israel. How plain is the instruction there given to all who desire to have their feet guided into the way of peace! Thus ends the book of Psalms. Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn; praise him with the lyre and harp! 1. You can be eloquent in thanks to those who do you kindnesses, and in praise of those whom you admire and love, but your best Friend receives none of your gratitude and none of your praise. The glory of God is the end of all the divine actions. His glory is sought by Him in the manifestation of His loving heart, mirrored in our illuminated and gladdened hearts. The spirit of conscious gratitude consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one by one. New American Standard Bible Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise in every age is one of the most important parts of worship. A fitting practical climax! My brethren were goodly and great; and the Lord delighted not in them. Commentary for Psalm 150:6 at BibleStudyTools.com https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/psalms-150.html. Psalms 148:1-14 Come Praise The Lord. We are to thank God not for what He has done for us, but for what He is. - Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord; literally, the whole of breath (comp. Amen. Psalms 150:5 : Proverbs 1:1 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. Praise ye the Lord.’. The call to praise has thus far been addressed to persons not mentioned by name, but, as the names of instruments thus heaped up show, to Israel especially. In all the five last psalms he speaks the language of praise. But they praise their God, and you are joining with them. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dcc/psalms-150.html. salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: ... Alleluia! There is no part of Christian worship that so tends to unite Christians, if they really take it up in spirit and unity, as praise. ‘Broke the fair music that all creatures made, Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord —, “Creation’s great superior, man! https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/psalms-150.html. He who wrote this psalm would preface the whole book by words into which the spirit of the book is distilled. Consider in what praise consists, what are its elements, or rather from what source it flows. The echo of love which gives and forgives, is love which accepts and thanks. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". (Bp. "Commentary on Psalms 150:6". In only six verses, we learn who, where, and how to praise, the motivation to praise, and who/what should do the praising. Joseph Benson's Commentary. He sends us sorrow, and He wills that we should weep-but they should be tears like David’s, who, at the lowest point of his fortunes, when he plaintively besought God, ‘Put Thou my tears into Thy bottle’-could say in the same breath, ‘Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto Thee.’ God works on our souls that we may have the consciousness of sin, and He wills that we should come with broken and contrite hearts, and like the king of Israel wail out our confessions and supplications-’Have mercy upon me, O God! Nehemiah 9:13-14. So it is even in the darkest moments, whilst the blast of misfortune and misery is as a storm against the wall. 6. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, page 463. "Commentary on Psalms 150:6". Creation, then, is the effluence of the loving heart of God. Hebrew. ", Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, "Alleluia! Praise is the travelling forth of the mind into the depths of the Divine nature; it is the folding of the mantle around us, so as to shut out the visible creation, and to be alive only to the sense of the uncreated Majesty. Not one, thank God! "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". make the experiment for yourselves. Praise ye the LORD. The holiest saint, what is he in the sight of God by nature? Psalm 150 - Praise the LORD! It will touch many a low note of wailing and of grief. Think of the extent and magnitude of those blessings — — — Think how entirely you owe them to the sovereign grace of God — — — Think what a difference is hereby put between you and others, not in this world only, but also in the world to come; and not for time only, but for eternity — — — Will not the very stones cry out against you, if you hold your peace? Verse 6. I wonder how many of us could honestly say, “Praising God characterizes my life”? 4. Psalm 150:6, KJV: "Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.Praise ye the LORD." We have here a twofold declaration of God’s great purpose in all His self-revelation, and especially in the Gospel of His Son. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Let there be one universal burst of praise. — “Should not this Raise man o’er man, and kindle seraphs here?” YOUNG. Ed. Praise the LORD.12 (emphasis added to highlight the theme of ‚praise‛) 10 Spurgeon, Charles H. The Treasury of David. There is no part of worship which so trains and fits us for heaven as does the service of praise. God does actually, though not completely, make men blessed here. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. If you cannot succeed—with strong cries and loud notes, only keep breathing forth to God the desires of your heart, and this will be acceptable to him.”—Moll. And he who can see with the Psalmist the ever-during mercy of the Lord, as the reason of creation and of judgments, has in his hands the golden key which opens all the locks in the palace chambers of the great King. "Everything that has breath" should praise Yahweh. II. "Commentary on Psalms 150:6". Is that because you have not chosen to take the universal blessing which God gives? The other is a call which is answered in some measure even by voices that are often dumb in unthankfulness, often broken by sobs, often murmuring in penitence. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. BibliographyBenson, Joseph. He was to refrain from the fruit of one tree and systematically eat of another to secure his immortality. In that world there will be no more need of prayer, for all will be supplied; no more need for sacraments, for we shall sit face to face with Him who shed His own blood for us, gave His own body for us; no more need to search diligently for the things written for our learning. 1857. breath. They express the great purpose for which God has given His Law. The harps of heaven are hushed to hear their praise who can sing, ‘Thou hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood,’ and, in answer to that hymn of thanksgiving for unexampled deliverance and resorting grace, the angels around the throne break forth into new songs to the Lamb that was slain-while still wider spread the broadening circles of harmonious praise, till at last ‘every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,’ join in the mighty hymn of ‘Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.’ Then the rapturous exclamation from human souls redeemed,-’Oh!