geneva - Psalms:145-147

geneva@Psalms:145:1 @ «David's [Psalm] of praise.» (note:)He shows which sacrifices are pleasant and acceptable to God, even praise and thanksgiving and seeing that God still continues his benefits toward us, we ought never to be weary in praising him for the same.(:note) I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

geneva@Psalms:145:2 @ I will blesse thee dayly, and prayse thy Name for euer and euer.

geneva@Psalms:145:3 @

geneva@Psalms:145:4 @ One generation shall praise thy works to (note:)Even as the reason for man's creation and his preservation in this life is to praise God, therefore he requires that not only we ourselves do this, but cause all others to do the same.(:note) another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

geneva@Psalms:145:5 @ I wil meditate of the beautie of thy glorious maiestie, and thy wonderfull workes,

geneva@Psalms:145:6 @ And [men] shall speak of the might of thy (note:)Of your terrible judgments against the wicked.(:note) terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

geneva@Psalms:145:7 @ They shall breake out into the mention of thy great goodnes, and shall sing aloude of thy righteousnesse.

geneva@Psalms:145:8 @ The LORD [is] gracious, and full of (note:)He describes after what sort God shows himself to all his creatures though our sins have provoked his vengeance against all: that is, merciful not only in pardoning the sins of his elect, but in doing good even to the reprobate, although they cannot feel the sweet comfort of the same.(:note) compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

geneva@Psalms:145:9 @ The Lord is good to all, and his mercies are ouer all his workes.

geneva@Psalms:145:10 @ All thy workes prayse thee, O Lord, and thy Saints blesse thee.

geneva@Psalms:145:11 @

geneva@Psalms:145:12 @ To make known to the sons of men his (note:)He shows that all things are out of order, only but where God reigns.(:note) mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

geneva@Psalms:145:13 @ Thy kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages.

geneva@Psalms:145:14 @ The LORD upholdeth all that (note:)Who being in misery and affliction would faint and fall away if God did not uphold them, and therefore they should revere him who reigns in heaven and suffer themselves to be governed by him.(:note) fall, and raiseth up all [those that be] bowed down.

geneva@Psalms:145:15 @ The eyes of (note:)That is, as well of man as of beast.(:note) all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

geneva@Psalms:145:16 @ Thou openest thine hand, and fillest all things liuing of thy good pleasure.

geneva@Psalms:145:17 @ The LORD [is] (note:)He praises God, not only because he is beneficial to all his creatures, but also in that he justly punishes the wicked, and mercifully examines his by the cross, giving them strength and delivering them.(:note) righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

geneva@Psalms:145:18 @ The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in (note:)Which only belongs to the faithful: and this virtue is contrary to infidelity, doubting, impatience and murmuring.(:note) truth.

geneva@Psalms:145:19 @ He will fulfil the (note:)For they will ask or wish for nothing, but according to his will, (1Jo_5:14).(:note) desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

geneva@Psalms:145:20 @ The Lorde preserueth all them that loue him: but he will destroy all the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:145:21 @ My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all (note:)That is, all men will be bound to praise him.(:note) flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

geneva@Psalms:146:1 @ Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my (note:)He stirs up himself and all his affections to praise God.(:note) soul.

geneva@Psalms:146:2 @ I will prayse the Lorde during my life: as long as I haue any being, I wil sing vnto my God.

geneva@Psalms:146:3 @ Put not your trust in (note:)That God may have the whole praise: in which he forbids all vain confidence showing that by nature we are more inclined to put our trust in creatures, than in God the Creator.(:note) princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.

geneva@Psalms:146:4 @ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his (note:)As their vain opinions, by which they flattered themselves and so imagined wicked enterprises.(:note) thoughts perish.

geneva@Psalms:146:5 @ Blessed is he, that hath the God of Iaakob for his helpe, whose hope is in the Lord his God.

geneva@Psalms:146:6 @ Which made (note:)He encourages the godly to trust only in the Lord, both in his power's ability to deliver them from all danger, and for his promise sake, as his will is most ready to do it.(:note) heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever:

geneva@Psalms:146:7 @ Which executeth judgment (note:)Whose faith and patience for a while he tries but at length he punishes the adversaries, that he may be known to be the judge of the world.(:note) for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

geneva@Psalms:146:8 @ The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD (note:)Though he visits them with affliction, hunger, imprisonment and such like, yet his fatherly love and pity never fails them, yea rather to his these are signs of his love.(:note) loveth the righteous:

geneva@Psalms:146:9 @ The LORD preserveth the (note:)Meaning, all who are destitute of worldly means and help.(:note) strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

geneva@Psalms:146:10 @ The LORD shall (note:)He assures the Church that God reigns forever for the preservation of the same.(:note) reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:147:1 @ Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our God; for [it is] (note:)He shows in which we ought to exercise ourselves continually, and to take our pastime: that is, in praising God.(:note) pleasant; [and] praise is comely.

geneva@Psalms:147:2 @ The LORD doth build up (note:)Because the Lord is the founder of the Church, it cannot be destroyed, though the members of it are dispersed and seem as it were for a time to be cut off.(:note) Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:147:3 @ He healeth the (note:)With affliction, or sorrow for sin.(:note) broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

geneva@Psalms:147:4 @ He (note:)Though it seems incredible to man, that God should assemble his Church, being so dispersed, yet nothing can be too hard to him that can number and name all the stars.(:note) telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their] names.

geneva@Psalms:147:5 @ Great is our Lord, and great is his power: his wisdome is infinite.

geneva@Psalms:147:6 @ The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the (note:)For the more high that the wicked climb the greater is their fall in the end.(:note) ground.

geneva@Psalms:147:7 @ Sing vnto the Lord with prayse: sing vpon the harpe vnto our God,

geneva@Psalms:147:8 @ Who (note:)He shows by the example of God's mighty power, goodness, and wisdom, that he can never lack just opportunity to praise God.(:note) covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

geneva@Psalms:147:9 @ He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which (note:)For their crying is as it were a confession of their need, which cannot be relieved, but by God alone, then if God show himself mindful of the most contemptible souls, can he suffer them to die with famine, whom he has assured of life everlasting?(:note) cry.

geneva@Psalms:147:10 @ He delighteth not in the (note:)Though to use lawful means is both profitable and pleases God, yet to put our trust in them is to defraud God of his honour.(:note) strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

geneva@Psalms:147:11 @ But the Lorde deliteth in them that feare him, and attende vpon his mercie.

geneva@Psalms:147:12 @ Prayse the Lorde, O Ierusalem: prayse thy God, O Zion.

geneva@Psalms:147:13 @ For he hath (note:)He not only furnishes his Church with all that is necessary but preserves also the same, and makes it strong against all outward force.(:note) strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

geneva@Psalms:147:14 @ He setteth peace in thy borders, and satisfieth thee with the floure of wheate.

geneva@Psalms:147:15 @ He sendeth forth his (note:)His secret working in all creatures is as a command to keep them in order and to give them moving and force.(:note) commandment [upon] earth: his word runneth very For immediately and without resisting all things obey him. swiftly.

geneva@Psalms:147:16 @ He giueth snowe like wooll, and scattereth the hoare frost like ashes.

geneva@Psalms:147:17 @ He casteth foorth his yce like morsels: who can abide the colde thereof?

geneva@Psalms:147:18 @ He sendeth his worde and melteth them: he causeth his winde to blowe, and the waters flowe.

geneva@Psalms:147:19 @ He sheweth his (note:)As before he called God's secret working in all his creatures his word: so he means by this his word the doctrine of life everlasting, which he has left to his Church as a precious treasure.(:note) word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

geneva@Psalms:147:20 @ He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not (note:)The cause of this difference is God's free mercy, which has elected his in his Son Christ Jesus to salvation: and his just judgment, by which he has appointed the reprobate to eternal damnation.(:note) known them. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:148:1 @ Praise ye the Lord. Prayse ye the Lord from the heauen: prayse ye him in the high places.