Praise the LORD; for the LORD [is] good: sing praises unto his name; for [it is] pleasant.
Ver. 3. Praise the Lord; for the Lord is good] sc. Originally, transcendently, effectively; he is good and doeth good, Psalms 119:68, and is therefore to be praised with mind, mouth, and practice.
For it is pleasant] An angelical exercise, and, to the spiritually minded man, very delicious. To others, indeed, who have no true notion of God but as of an enemy, it is but as music at funerals, or as the trumpet before a judge, no comfort to the mourning wife, or guilty prisoner.