Psalms 117:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD. ”

Psalms 117:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For his merciful kindness is great toward us - His kindness; his compassion; his love. All nations - all people - may say this, and therefore the psalm is adapted to universal praise. Especially...
Psalms 117:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the (a) truth of the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD. (a) That is, the most certain and continual testimony of his fatherly graces.
Psalms 117:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXVII. All nations are invited to worship Yahweh, who has revealed His power and faithfulness to Israel. The Ps. is Messianic in the general sense that it contemplates the union of all nations in t...
Psalms 117:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

merciful kindness . lovingkindness, or grace. is great toward . overcame, or prevailed over. Compare Psalms 103:11 . Praise ye THE LORD. Hebrew Hallelu-Jah. App-4.
Psalms 117:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The truth of God, in this passage, is properly introduced as an attestation of his grace. For he can be true even when he menaces the whole world with perdition and ruin. The prophet, however...
Psalms 117:2 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 693 THE GENTILES CALLED TO PRAISE GOD Psalms 117 . O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lor...
Psalms 117:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD. For his merciful kindness is great - גבר gabar, is strong: it is not only great in bul...
Psalms 117:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth...
Psalms 117:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The shortest chapter in the Bible, and the middle chapter. It is a doxology, calling all peoples to praise Jehovah. It may have been appended to some Ps.
Psalms 117:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

CXVII. This, shortest of all the psalms, might well be called multum in parvo, for in its few words it contains, as St. Paul felt ( Romans 15:11 ), the germ of the great doctrine of the universa...
Psalms 117:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 117:1-2 THIS shortest of the psalms is not a fragment, though some MSS attach it to the preceding and some to the following psalm. It contains large "riches in a narrow room," and its very...
Psalms 117:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Praise Him for All His Benefits Psalms 116:12-19 ; Psalms 117:1-2 The psalmist dwells joyfully on his enslavement to God, because in and through it he had found perfect liberty. Thou hast loo...
Psalms 117:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fifth song of the Hallel is the shortest in the Psalter. In it in a very deep sense, is fulfilled the saying so common that “Brevity is the soul of wit.” It lives indeed with the wisdom of perfec...
Psalms 117:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS READER! contemplate the blessed contents of this psalm, and let the saving interest we as Gentiles bear in it, bring it home to our hearts with a tenfold joy and satisfaction. In order t...
Psalms 117:2 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE CRY OF FAITH AND JOY ‘I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.’ Psalms 117:1 We shall never, I suppose, know from whose lips and hearts this cry of faith and joy first...
Psalms 117:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For his merciful kindness is great towards us ,.... Not us Israelites only, of whom David was, but Gentiles also; or otherwise there would be no force in the reason why all people and nations should...
Psalms 117:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD. Ver. 2. For his merciful kindness is great ] Invaluit, hath prevailed over us, br...
Psalms 117:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O praise the Lord, all ye nations Let not the praises that are due to the great Lord of all, be confined to our nation; but let all people upon the face of the earth praise him. For his merciful k...
Psalms 117:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

All Nations Admonished to Praise God. 1 O praise the L ORD , all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. 2 For his mer...
Psalms 117:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Toward us; either, 1. Towards us Jews, to whom he hath given those peculiar privileges which he hath denied to all other nations. But this may seem an improper argument to move the Gentiles to pr...
Psalms 117:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION 1. Authorship, &c., unknown. 2. Probably a liturgical introduction to, or dismissal from, a service, either by separate choirs or the whole people. 3. “The lyrical expression of the...
Psalms 117:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This psalm, like Psalms 113 ., is a prophecy of the conversion of the gentiles: so it is cited by St. Paul in Romans 15:11 . Some critics regard it as an exordium to the hundred and eighteenth psal...
Psalms 117:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise Him, all ye people. An exhortation to praise God for His goodness 1. In God’s worship it is not always necessary to be long; few words sometimes say wh...
Psalms 117:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION IT has been doubted whether this exceedingly short psalm can ever have been in tended for a separate composition, and was not rather written as a conclusion to Psalms 116:1-19 . or...
Psalms 117:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Universal Kingdom of Messiah. The shortest hymn in the Psalter, portraying, in a few words, the Church of God of all times in its relation to Jehovah, the God of salvation. The truth expressed...
Psalms 117:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 5:6 ; Isaiah 25:1 ; John 14:6 ; Luke 1:54 ; Luke 1:55 ; Micah 7:20 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 85:10 ; Psalms 89:1 ; Romans 15:8 ; Romans 15:9

Psalms 117:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 117:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 117:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 117:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 117:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 117:2 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 117:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 117:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 117:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 117:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 117:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 117:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 117:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 117:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 117:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 117:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 117:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge