Psalm 147:3

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 147:3

147:3 He healeth the {c} broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.(c) With affliction, or sorrow for sin. read more

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 147:1-20

Psalms 135:0 Praises God for choosing Jacob (Psalms 135:1-4 ), extols His power in the natural world (Psalms 135:5-7 ), and in the deliverance of His people from Egypt (Psalms 135:8-9 ) and bringing them into the promised land (Psalms 135:10-12 ). All this is in contrast to the vanity of idols (Psalms 135:13-18 ). Psalms 136:0 Is of the same character as the preceding, but is notable for the chorus attached to each verse a chorus with which we have become familiar in other psalms (Psalms 106:1... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Psalms 147:1-20

The Grand Doxology Psalms 146-150 How could the Book of Psalms end but in this way? Psalms cannot end in prose. Whether the arrangement is mechanical or inspired, it is the best possible. There is a fitness of things, and that fitness is realised in this peroration. It is as if a great broad river had suddenly become a resounding cascade; these five psalms are the final cataract. The Psalmist will have everything pressed into the choir. He will not have a small band. He ranges creation... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Psalms 147:2-5

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite." Psa 147:2-5 Every revelation of the nature or attributes of God must be of supreme value to men who are not utterly debased in thought and feeling. God must ever be the one... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 147:1-4

I consider this subject spiritually. For the building of Jerusalem is peculiarly the office of Christ. When the Lord promises to lift up an ensign to the people, it evidently refers to Christ. See those scriptures, Isaiah 11:12 ; whence Christ saith, John 12:32 ; hence also that sweet promise, Isaiah 27:13 ; and hence, if we accept this divine Psalm in this spiritual illustration of it all that follows may be interpreted with reference to Christ. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 147:3

or Hebrew Psalm cxlvii. Ver. 14. Peace. To obtain this, the peace of Jesus Christ must triumph in our hearts, Colossians iii. 15. (Haydock) --- Borders. People perceiving that Assuerus favoured the Jews, durst no longer attack them, 2 Esdras vi. 16. (Calmet) --- They enjoyed peace and plenty. In the Church we have remission of sin in baptism and penance, and the spiritual food of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Eucharist, with the graces of the other sacraments. In heaven peace and joy... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 147:1-11

1-11 Praising God is work that is its own wages. It is comely; it becomes us as reasonable creatures, much more as people in covenant with God. He gathers outcast sinners by his grace, and will bring them into his holy habitation. To those whom God heals with the consolations of his Spirit, he speaks peace, assures them their sins are pardoned. And for this, let others praise him also. Man's knowledge is soon ended; but God's knowledge is a dept that can never be fathomed. And while he telleth... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 147:1-20

Hallelujah to the God of Zion. A Hallelujah Psalm, setting forth God's providential care toward all creatures, but especially toward His people, His holy congregation. v. 1. Praise ye the Lord, the entire congregation of believers raising its voice to that end; for it is good to sing praises unto our God, with whom the believers are joined in the most intimate fellowship and proudly declare their possession of Him; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely, it is fitting and appropriate for... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 147:1-20

Psalms 147:01 Praise ye the Lord:For it is good to sing praises unto our God;For it is pleasant; And praise is comely.2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem:He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.3 He healeth the broken in heart,And bindeth up their wounds.4 He telleth the number of the stars;He calleth them all by their names.5 Great is our Lord, and of great power:His understanding is infinite.6 The Lord lifteth up the meek:He casteth the wicked down to the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 147:1-11

Why We Praise the Lord Psalms 147:1-11 It has been supposed that this psalm was prepared for use when the new walls of the city were completed in the days of Nehemiah. It contains a further enumeration of God’s present tenses. The psalmist never tires of celebrating the immediateness of God. He will not tolerate the intervention of second causes, which are the artifice of scientific explanation. Laws are, after all, only the convenient statement of the regularity of God’s methods. The... read more

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