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Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 150:1-6

INTRODUCTIONDean Perowne speaks of this Psalm as “the great closing Hallelujah, or Doxology, of the Psalter, in which every kind of musical instrument is to hear its part as well as the voice of man, in which not one nation only, but ‘everything that hath breath,’ is invited to join. It is one of those Psalms which ‘declare their own intention as anthems, adapted for that public worship which was the glory and delight of the Hebrew people; a worship carrying with it the soul of the multitude by... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 150:1-3

Psalms 150:1-3 , Psalms 150:6 I. Consider the nature of praise. (1) From such passages as Isaiah 6:1-3 , Revelation 4:8 , Revelation 14:1-3 , we collect with certainty thus much: that praise is the main element of the homage of saints and angels in the eternal world. And indeed it is difficult to imagine what besides it could be. The worship which created beings render to the Almighty is divisible into two acts: prayer and praise. But from the nature of the case the spirits of the blessed can... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 150:6

Psalms 150:6 Consider in what praise consists, what are its elements, or rather from what source it flows. I. It arises from a consciousness of blessings already received, as, for example, the gift of regeneration, the grace of conversion, the spirit of repentance, the spiritual food of the body and blood of Christ, and the numberless, and therefore nameless, blessings and gifts of this world and the next, both for the body and for the soul, of which our life is full. The spirit of conscious... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 150:6

DISCOURSE: 752THE DUTY IS PRAISING GODPsalms 150:6. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.GREATLY diversified has David’s experience been, as depicted in the Book of Psalms. Sometimes we find him bowed down under a sense of sin, and sometimes sunk almost in the depths of despondency: but here we view him elevated as on Mount Tabor, and breathing, as it were, the very atmosphere of heaven. It should seem as if all the concluding psalms had been penned at the close of life, when his... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 150:1-6

Psalms 150:1-6 Now, again, the final psalm is an exhortation of praise and to praise the Lord in unusual ways, as far as we firstly perhaps are concerned.Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. [And then] Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and the dance: praise him with the stringed... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 150:1-6

The full choir, the full band, and the full heart, are here exhorted to praise the Lord. Surely this, when holy prophets joined in the worship, must resemble heaven itself. But oh how can drunkards, swearers, harlots, and infidels go about polluting churches by singing their Messiah? Psalms 150:3 . Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with the psaltery. 1 Samuel 10:5. Praise him with the harp, the kinnor. Psalms 150:4 . Praise him with the timbrel, the tambour. ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 150:1-6

Psalms 150:1-6Praise God in His sanctuary.WorshipI. Its spirit is exultation. Is there gratitude in it? Yes, gratitude of the highest type and degree, and gratitude is an element of joy. Is there admiration in it? Yes, admiration of supreme excellence, and the mind admiring beauty, whether artistic or natural, physical or moral, is the mind in rapture. Is adoration in it? Yes, adoration of the most transcendent order, the adoration of ineffable excellence, and the mind adoring is the mind in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 150:3-5

Psalms 150:3-5Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet.Musical instruments in worship1. Albeit the typical ceremonies of musical instruments in God’s public worship, belonging to the pedagogy of the Church, in her minority before Christ, be now abolished with the rest of the ceremonies, yet the moral duties shadowed forth by them are still to be studied, because this duty of praising God, and praising Him with all our mind, strength and soul is moral, whereunto we are perpetually obliged.2. The... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 150:6

Psalms 150:6Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.The breath of praiseI. Praise in every age is one of the most important parts of worship. The holiest saint, what is he in the sight of God by nature? A poor sinner, born, no doubt, again of the Spirit, made a new creature by the Holy Ghost. But what does he owe it to? He owes it all to the free grace of God. “By the grace of God,” said the great apostle of the Gentiles, “I am what I am.” And ought not this creature, delivered from... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 150:1

Psa 150:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Ver. 1. Praise ye the Lord ] See Psalms 148:1 . Praise God in his sanctuary ] It is probable, saith Beza, that hoc Psalmo mirifici ardoris plano, by this psalm, which is so full of wonderful ardour, the holy singers of the sanctuary did mutually stir up one another to praise the Lord. It hath been noted before, that here we have in six verses twelve hallelujahs. Some by "sanctuary" understand... read more

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