Psalms 146:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: ”

Psalms 146:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help - Who may rely for protection on the God who defended Jacob in his travels and dangers. Or, perhaps the word Jacob is used here collectively to...
Psalms 146:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXLVI. This Ps., like the remaining Pss. to the end of the Psalter, begins and closes with the word Hallelujah (Praise Yah). These Pss. may originally have formed a collection by themselves. The th...
Psalms 146:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Happy. The last of the twenty-seven Beatitudes in the Book of Psalms. See App-63. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. of Jacob: i.e. the God who met Jacob ( Genesis 28:13 ) when he had nothing ( Genesis 3...
Psalms 146:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. Blessed is he, etc. As it would not have been enough to reprove the sin, he submits the remedy upon which the proper correction of it depends; and this is, that the hopes of men are only...
Psalms 146:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 744 THE BLESSEDNESS OF TRUSTING IN GOD Psalms 146:5 . Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. HOW exalted was the frame of the Psalmi...
Psalms 146:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help - While he that trusts in man is miserable, he that t...
Psalms 146:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help - instead of 'trusting in princes, in whom there is...
Psalms 146:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Here begins the final group, Psalms 146-150, known as the 'Hallelujah' Pss., because each begins and ends with that word, meaning, 'Praise ye the Lord.' They sum up the joy of the returned exiles, an...
Psalms 146:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For the different aspects of the Divine nature and character inspiring trust see Introduction. With this verse comp. Psalms 33:12 ; Psalms 144:15 . Hope. — The Hebrew word is rare in the psalter...
Psalms 146:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 146:1-10 THE long-drawn music of the Psalter closes with five Hallelujah psalms, in which, with constantly swelling diapason, all themes of praise are pealed forth, until the melodious thun...
Psalms 146:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Lord Loveth the Righteous Psalms 146:1-10 This and the four following psalms are the “Hallelujah” Psalms. Each begins with that word. They were probably composed for use in the second Templ...
Psalms 146:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We now come to the final psalms of adoration, each one of which opens and closes with the great call to praise. “Hallelujah, praise the Lord.” The theme of this first is that of the sufficiency of G...
Psalms 146:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There can be no hesitation to determine to whom these verses refer. The God of Jacob, is God's Covenant name in Christ. And the offices that covenant God hath performed, and is performing, as plainly...
Psalms 146:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help ,.... The God of the patriarch Jacob, the Messiah, who is that God that fed him all his life, the Angel that redeemed him from all evil, with...
Psalms 146:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God: Ver. 5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help ] Since he is the King immortal, all power...
Psalms 146:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Put not your trust in princes However great their wealth or power may be; nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help “Earthly princes, if they have the will, often want the power, even to pr...
Psalms 146:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragement to Trust in God. 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the L ORD...
Psalms 146:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Psalms 146:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION In the Hebrew this Psalm has no superscription. The Septuagint has the superscription, “Hallelujah. Of Haggai and Zechariah;” and is followed in this respect by the Vulgate and the Syri...
Psalms 146:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 146:1 . Praise ye the LORD. Or, «Hallelujah.» I am sorry to see that great word, Hallelujah, Hallelu-Jah, praise to Jah, Jehovah, become so hackneyed as it is, by talk about «Hallelujah la...
Psalms 146:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This, and the two following, are called the Hallelujah psalms of Haggai and of Zechariah the prophets, being composed after the captivity. Psalms 146:10 . The Lord shall reign for ever; even thy G...
Psalms 146:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah I. The grandest resolution (verses 1, 2). 1. The author’s belief in the existence of his soul. When this conviction comes, the whole universe is transfigured,...
Psalms 146:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE psalter ends with a cluster of "Hallelujah Psalms," five in number, all of them both beginning and ending with the phrase. In the Hebrew none of them has any" title;" but it is...
Psalms 146:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Hallelujah to the True Helper. This psalm, whose author is not known, is the first of the five Hallelujah Psalms with which the psalter closes, an invitation to praise the Lord for the merciful...
Psalms 146:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 1:21 ; Deuteronomy 33:29 ; Exodus 3:6 ; Genesis 32:24-29 ; Genesis 50:17 ; Jeremiah 17:7 ; Jeremiah 17:8 ; Psalms 144:15 ; Psalms 33:12 ; Psalms 39:7 ; Psalms 46:11 ; Psalms 46:7...

Psalms 146:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 146:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 146:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 146:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 146:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 146:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 146:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 146:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 146:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 146:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 146:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 146:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 146:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 146:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 146:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 146:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge