Psalms 104:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. ”

• Psalms 104:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Bless the Lord, O my soul - See Psalms 103:1 . O Lord my God, thou art very great - This is a reason why the psalmist calls on his soul to bless God; namely, for the fact that he is so exalt...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art (a) clothed with honour and majesty. (a) The prophet shows that we do not need to enter into the heavens to seek God, for as m...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  CIV. The Glory of the Creator. Psalms 104:1-4 . Yahweh's power in the heavens. He is clothed in the light which God made first ( Genesis 1:3 ) before the heavenly bodies. He lays the foundation o...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Bless. Figure of speech Apostrophe. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. with 'eth = Jehovah Himself. App-4. my soul . I myself. Hebrew. nephesh. LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. very great....

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• Psalms 104:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Bless Jehovah, O my soul! After having exhorted himself to praise God, the Psalmist adds, that there is abundant matter for such an exercise; thus indirectly condemning himself and others...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. O Lord my God, thou art very great - The works of God, which are the subject of this Psalm, pa...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  A meditation upon the mighty power and wonderful providence of God. God's glory is eternal. The prophet voweth perpetually to praise God. THOUGH this psalm has no title in the original, it is sai...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Psalms 104:1-35 .-Theme: Bless Yahweh for His works, which reflect His majesty ( Psalm...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  This is a Ps. of Nature, celebrating God's glory as seen in His works both inanimate and animate. It is an expansion of the closing vv. of Psalms 103 , and like that Ps. begins and ends with the phr...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Clothed. — For the same metaphor see Psalms 93:1 .

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• Psalms 104:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 104:1-35 LIKE the preceding psalm, this one begins and ends with the psalmist's call to his soul to bless Jehovah. The inference has been drawn that both psalms have the same author, but th...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Lord's Wondrous Handiwork Psalms 104:1-12 The opening verses of this psalm appear to describe in sublime poetry the creation of the world. God is very great, because He created the heavens...

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• Psalms 104:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Again we have a great song of praise commencing and closing with the same note of personal praise. While in the former the dominant note is that of the mercy of Jehovah, here it is that of His majest...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS This is a divine Psalm, in point of sublimity of thought, as well as devotion. It celebrates, like the former, the glories of God: and probably, though not said to be so, was written by the...

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• Psalms 104:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Ver. 1. Bless the Lord, O my soul ] This was much in David's mouth, as Deo gratias was in...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  O Lord my God, thou art very great As in thine own nature and perfections, so also in the glory of thy works; thou art clothed Surrounded and adorned, with honour and majesty With honourable m...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Divine Majesty.       1 Bless the L ORD , O my soul. O L ORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour a...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  PSALM 104 THE ARGUMENT . As the next foregoing Psalm treats of the special favours of God to his church and people, so this declares and celebrates the wonderful and gracious works of God to all man...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Calvin, “differs from the last, in that it neither treats of God’s special mercies bestowed on His Church, nor lifts us to the hope of a heavenly life; but painting f...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 104:1 . Greatness, if you look at it as something separate from you, and away, still more if you have a consciousness that it may be against you, is a matter of awe and terror. If you mingle...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  I trust that we have already felt something of holy enjoyment while our hearts and voices have been praising the Lord our God. Perhaps this Psalm may help to keep us in a praising state of mind. Firs...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  This psalm has no title in the Hebrew, but it is ascribed to David by the LXX, and by most of the Versions. It celebrates the works of God in the creation of the world, and in strains worthy of the r...

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• Psalms 104:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

  O Lord my God, Thou art very great. A hymn of praise to God in Nature I. The universality of God’s workings in Nature. 1. In the domain of dead matter. He is operating in the waters as they...

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• Psalms 104:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION " THE psalmist, in a time of severe trouble, arising from the power of the heathen, seeks consolation in reflecting on the greatness of God in nature," So Hengstenberg, correctly. Th...

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• Psalms 104:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bless the Lord, O my soul, a powerful self-encouragement, like in the preceding psalm. O Lord, my God, Thou art very great, full of royal splendor and majestic glory; Thou art clothed with honor a...

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• Psalms 104:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 7:9 ; Daniel 9:4 ; Habakkuk 1:12 ; Isaiah 59:17 ; Jeremiah 23:24 ; Jeremiah 32:17-19 ; Psalms 29:1-4 ; Psalms 7:1 ; Psalms 96:6 ; Psalms 103:1 ; Psalms 103:2 ; Psalms 103:22 ; Psa...

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