The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 145:1-21

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WITH another hymn of praise, this late collection of Davidical psalms, previously omitted from the Psalter, terminates. Like verses 25. and 34; also Davidical, this psalm is alphabetic, and also, like them, it is incomplete, the letter nun being omitted. Like most of the ether alphabetical psalms, it consists of meditations on a single theme, which is here the righteousness and goodness of God

The metrical arrangement of the psalm is into three stanzas of seven verses each.

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commentaryMatthew Henry on Psalms 145:1-9Those who, under troubles and temptations, abound in fervent prayer, shall in due season abound in grateful praise, which is the true language of holy joy. Especially we should speak of God's wondrous work of redemption…Matthew Henry commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 145:1-21The Te Deum of the Old Testament. So this glorious psalm has been fitly named, and it is the germ of that great Christian hymn. "It is one, and the last, of the acrostic, or rather the alphabetic psalms, of which there…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 145:1-21God's greatness, goodness, and glory. "Every one who repeats the Tehillah of David thrice a day, may be sure that he is a child of the world to come." I. GOD'S GREATNESS. (Psalms 145:1-6.) 1. Unsearchable. (Psalms 145:3…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 145:1I will extol thee, my God, O King; rather, O my God, the King; i.e. the one and only King of heaven and earth. And I will bless thy Name forever and ever. An internal conviction of the writer's immortality is implied in…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 145:2Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever. An emphatic repetition of the second clause of Psalms 145:1.Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 145:3Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised (comp. Psalms 48:1; Psalms 96:4). And his greatness is unsearchable; literally, and of his greatness there is no search (comp. Romans 11:33).Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 145:4The praise of succeeding generations. In the old times kings forwarded their despatches by running footmen, of whom there were relays (see Job 9:25; Jeremiah 51:31; 2 Chronicles 30:6-10; Esther 3:13-15). The statutes, o…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 145:4One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. The handing down of God's mercies and deliverances from age to age is always regarded in Scripture as the principal mode whereby they…Joseph S. Exell and contributors