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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 145 David's [Psalm] of praise. This psalm is rendered by Ainsworth "a hymn of David"; and the whole book of Psalms is from hence called "the Book of Hymns"; see Ephesians 5:19; It seems to have been a psalm David took great delight in, and it may be that he often repeated and sung it, as it was made by him with great care...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will extol thee, my God, O King,.... Or "the King" (a), the King Messiah, who is by way of eminency called "the King", as in Psalms 21:1. This is the foundation of this whole psalm, as Aben Ezra observes; and shows who is intended and who is the subject of it that is spoken of throughout, even the Messiah, who is the King of the world, the King...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The five foregoing psalms were all of a piece, all full of prayers; this, and the five that follow it to the end of the book, are all of a piece too, all full of praises; and though only this is entitled David's psalm yet we have no reason to think but that they were all his as well as all the foregoing prayers. And it is observable, 1. That after...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Notice how long David expected to praise God. He was going to praise God for ever, and then after that, “for ever and ever.” “’Every day will I bless thee,’—that is, when I do not seem to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will extol thee, my God, O king, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. Such as the Lord is, such should his worship be. If he were a little God, he would deserve little praise; but the...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. I will extol thee, my God, O king. David as God's king adores God as his king. It is well when the Lord's royalty arouses our loyalty, and our spirit is moved to magnify his majesty. The Psalmist has extolled his Lord many a time before, he is doing so still, and he will do so in the future: praise is for all tenses. When we cannot express...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1-2. I will bless thee for ever and ever, and again, Psa_145:2. This intimates, 1. That he resolved to continue in this work to the end of his life, throughout his "for ever" in this world. 2. That the psalms he penned should be made use of in praising God by the church to the end of time. 2Ch 29:30. 3. That he hoped to be praising God to all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Every day will I bless thee,.... For new mercies had every morning; for fresh supplies of grace every day, which all come from the fulness of Christ, to whom all grace is given, and from whence it is received, and in whom all spiritual blessings are, and by whom they are bestowed; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever; as long as he lived...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 2. Every day will I bless thee. Whatever the character of the day, or of my circumstances and conditions during that day, I will continue to glorify God. Were we well to consider the matter we should see abundant cause in each day for rendering special blessing unto the Lord. All before the day, all in the day, all following the day should...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Great [is] the Lord, and greatly to be praised,.... Christ is the great God as well as our Saviour; great in all the perfections of his nature, of great wisdom, power, faithfulness, holiness, grace, and goodness; great in his person as God-man, God manifest in the flesh; great in all his offices and relations he bears and stands in to his people;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He is great without bound; let him be praised without end. There is no end to his greatness; let there be no end to our adoration.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. The fathers shall be the preachers to their sons, and the sons shall be the preachers to their sons. The flaming torch of Jehovah’s praise shall be passed from hand to hand all down the centuries; as long as men shall live, God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
One generation shall praise thy works to another,.... The works of providence done in one age shall be told by the father to the son with praise to the great Performer of them, and so be transmitted to the latest posterity; for in every age there are new and strange things done in Providence, the memory of which is not lost, but they are recorded...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. There is a hallowed tradition of praise; each generation should hand out the praise of God as a precious legacy to the next one. Train up your sons and daughters to praise your God, so that, when your voice is silent in death, another voice, like your own, may...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty,.... Of the majesty of the divine Person of Christ; of the honour due unto him; of the glory of him as of the only begotten of the Father, as he is the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person; of his glory as Mediator, and the honour that belongs to him as such, with which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, This is a beautiful expression: “I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty.” It is a heaped-up expression. David was in an ecstasy of delight when he wrote it; he did not know how sufficiently to express his adoration of God. Other men might praise God for themselves, but that is not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And of thy wondrous works. And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. “And I will declare.” Yes, in comes David’s personal note again; he cannot let the praises of God alone, he must take his full share in this heavenly task. I wish that, whenever there was work to do for God, or prayer to be offered...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. “I will speak.” What a powerful speaker David was! Note how he piles up his golden words. He is not content merely to talk of God’s majesty, but he speaks of its “glorious honour.” When he talked of God’s works, he calls them “wondrous works.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And [men] shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts,.... The terrible things of Christ, which his right hand has taught him, and his mighty power has performed; such as the destruction of a disobedient and ungodly world by a flood, to whom he preached by his Spirit in the days of Noah; the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah by raining on them fire...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: If they will not speak of anything else, they shall be obliged to speak with awe when the terrors of the Lord are abroad in the earth. If they were as dumb as fishes before, they shall begin to say to one another, with bated breath, when earthquakes, and famines, and war, and pestilence are...