Job 37:10; Job 37:17; Job 6:16; Job 6:17; Psalms 147:15
He sendeth out his word - He commands: or, he speaks. And melteth them - Melts the snow and the ice. Compare the notes at Job 37:10-12 : “B...
CXLVII. The LXX, perhaps rightly, divides the Ps. into two, Psalms 147:1-11 and Psalms 147:12-20 . Psalms 147:1-11 . An invitation to prais...
word. Hebrew. dabar = the subject-matter of the articulate utterance ( Psalms 147:16 ). See App-73. wind. Hebrew. ruach, App-9.
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. He sendeth out his word - He gives a command: the sout...
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he ca...
A song of praise in which the Psalmist recounts God's mercies (1) in restoring Jerusalem, (2) in helping those cast down, (3) in caring for the anima...
Psalms 147:1-20 THE threefold calls to praise Jehovah ( Psalms 147:1 , Psalms 147:7 , Psalms 147:12 ) divide this psalm into three parts, the tw...
Peace and Prosperity Psalms 147:12-20 From Psalms 147:12 on there is a more personal address to Jerusalem and Zion. The thee and thou jus...
In this psalm, beginning with a call which declares the pleasantness and comeliness of praise (v. Psa 147:1), the singer first celebrates the Divine...
New and increasing claims are upon Zion, for renewed instances of divine favor. And, Reader! this is your case, and mine. Every day, nay every moment...
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them ,.... The snow, the hoar frost, and ice: this he does by a word of his, who can freeze the earth and water...
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, [and] the waters flow. Ver. 18. He sendeth out his word, and melteth them...
He giveth snow like wool Not only in colour, and shape, and softness, and its falling silently like a lock of wool; but in its covering the earth a...
Jerusalem and Zion Called to Praise to God; God's Favour to Israel. 1...
His wind; the southern or some other warm wind sent with commission to dissolve the ice. The waters flow; the rivers return to their course which...
INTRODUCTION “Like the last Psalm, and like those which follow it, this is evidently an anthem intended for the service of the Second Temple. It cel...
Psalms 147:18 There are two lessons taught in these words: I. God works by means. God makes all the means, and then uses them as He sees good. Go...
Psalms 147:1 . Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. «It is good,» that is t...
This Book of Psalms ends its golden stream in a cataract of praise. The last Psalms are Hallelujah Psalms; this one begins and ends, as several other...
Psalms 147:1 . Praise ye the LORD: This Psalm begins and ends with Hallelujah. So may this service, and so may our lives, commence and conclude w...
This psalm, like the preseding, is without title in the Hebrew or Chaldee; but is ascribed by the Versions to Haggai and Zechariah. REFLECTIONS....
He hath strengthened the bars of thy gates. Piety exulting in Divine goodness I. In the general prosperity of society. He recognizes the good h...
He giveth snow like wool. Frost and thaw Looking out of our window one morning we saw the earth robed in a white mantle; for in a few short bou...
EXPOSITION This psalm is generally assigned to the time of the dedication of the city wall ( Nehemiah 12:27-16 ), when the gate-towers had been...
Hallelujah to the God of Zion. A Hallelujah Psalm, setting forth God's providential care toward all creatures, but especially toward His people, H...
He sendeth out His word, His command, and melteth them, the ice, snow, and hail; He causeth his wind to blow, as in the case of the foehn of the...
18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.