Psalms 115:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD. ”

• Psalms 115:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But we will bless the Lord ... - While life lasts; now and ever onward. Our lives are spared; and while those lives shall be continued they shall be spent in praise. We will transmit the praise t...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  CXV. The Blindness of Idolatry and the Virtue of Utter Trust in Yahweh. Psalms 115:2 f. An invisible god was unintelligible to the average heathen; he believed that the god was specially present...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Praise THE LORD. Hebrew Hallelu-Jah.

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• Psalms 115:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD. But we will bless the Lord - Our fathers, who received so much from thy bounty, are dead, their tongues are silent i...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD. But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore - i:e., we shall have the opportunity still...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  In LXX 114, 115 are one Ps., while 116 is divided into two. Apparently Psalms 115 was written to be sung antiphonally: cp. the responses in Psalms 115:9-10 ; Psalms 115:11 —the first eight and th...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The connection of these verses with the rest of the psalm is far from plain. Why the psalmist should suddenly be struck with the dreadful thought that death broke the covenant relationship, and silen...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 115:1-18 ISRAEL is in straits from heathen enemies, and cries to Jehovah to vindicate His own Name by delivering it. Strengthened by faith, which has been stung into action by taunts aimed...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Powerless Idols; Our Powerful God Psalms 115:1-18 Evidently this psalm was intended to be sung by various voices: Psalms 115:1-8 by the whole congregation in unison, while the sacrifice was b...

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• Psalms 115:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This third psalm in the Hallel is born of passion for the glory of the name of Jehovah. That is its opening note, and all that follows must be explained thereby. The singer's distress is heard in the...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here is a striking contrast between the dead and the living. And why may we not interpret it as the real state of the case between the dead in trespasses and sins, and the living soul in Christ? Ther...

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• Psalms 115:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore ,.... The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, render it, "we who are alive"; both in a corporeal and in a spiri...

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• Psalms 115:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD. Ver. 18. But we will bless the Lord ] For if he lose his praise in us, he will lose it altogether; and so all thi...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The dead praise not the Lord See note on Psalms 6:5 . Neither any that go into silence Into the place of silence, the grave. But we will bless the Lord But we hope for better things; that, not...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Confidence in God.       9 O Israel, trust thou in the L ORD : he is their help and their shield.   10 O house of Aaron, tr...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  But we will bless the Lord; but we hope for better things, that notwithstanding our present and urgent danger, yet thou wilt deliver us, and so give us occasion to bless thy name; whereby thou wilt...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship uncertain. Has been ascribed to the immediate post exilie psalmists, and to the poets of the time of the Maccabees. 2. Characteristics. Allusion to or quotati...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  This is one of the Psalms, which were sung by the Jews at the feast of the Passover. It is highly probable that they were sung by our Lord on that memorable night when he instituted the sacred feast...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Whether this psalm was written after some victory, or after the removal of any calamity which had caused the heathen to boast, is not certain. But blessings of this kind, though they justly demand pr...

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• Psalms 115:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory. Genuine religious consciousness I. A consciousness of God’s greatness leading to a contempt for all idols. 1. The majesty of G...

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• Psalms 115:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION A LITURGICAL psalm, in which a divided choir, together with a leader—a priest or precentor—take separate parts. The occasion is one of danger ( Psalms 115:2 ), but, at the same time...

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• Psalms 115:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Vindication of God's Glory over against the Idols. This psalm may have been a cry of Israel for the assistance of the Lord in the face of invading enemies, who placed their confidence in their hea...

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• Psalms 115:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 2:20 ; Psalms 113:2 ; Psalms 118:17-19 ; Psalms 145:2 ; Psalms 145:21 ; Revelation 5:13

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