Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 113:4-9
2. Causes to praise the Lord 113:4-9 read more
Psalm 113
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 113:6-9
The second reason is that He condescends to pay attention to His creatures. One example of this is the way He occasionally exalts very poor or underprivileged people to positions of wealth and influence. He did this literally for Job, and He does it spiritually for every believer. Another example is how He sometimes makes barren women conceive and bear children. Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Hannah received this blessing, to name a few individuals. In view of God’s promises to make the Israelites... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 113:1-9
This Ps. begins the group (113-118) known in the Jewish Church as the Hallel Psalms, or Hymns of Praise, from hillel, to praise. They are sung at the Passover Feast—Psalms 113, 114 before the second cup, and 115-118 after the fourth cup; formerly recited also at the other two feasts, at the New Moons, and on the eight days of the Feast of Dedication (Cheyne). Psalms 113 has been called the Magnificat of the Old Testament. Note the liturgical introduction and conclusion (’Hallelujah’ = ’Praise... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 113
CXIII.This psalm begins the Hallel, or as sometimes called, the great Hallel—though that name more properly is confined to Psalms 136:0—recited at the great Jewish feasts. It is partly modelled on Hannah’s song. Its form is regular. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 113:1
(1) Ye servants of the Lord—i.e., Israel. (See Psalms 69:36.) read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 113:4
(4) Comp. Psalms 8:1, &c read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 113:6
(6) Humbleth himself.—Contrast this condescension with the indifference to human joys and sorrows which heathen deities were said to show. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 113:7
(7) Dunghill.—Literally, a heap of rubbish. “Before each village in Hauran there is a place where the household heap up the sweepings of their stalls, and it gradually reaches a great circumference and a height which rises far above the highest buildings of the village.” “The mezbela serves the inhabitants of the district as a watch-tower, and on close oppressive evenings as a place of assembly, because there is a current of air on the height. There the children play about the whole day long;... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 113:7-8
(7-8) See 1 Samuel 2:8, from which the verses are taken; and comp. Luke 1:52.So the heathen poet sang of Jove (Hor.: Odes i., 34, 35). read more
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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 113:4-5
The first reason God’s servants should praise Him is that He is the glorious sovereign ruler of all the earth. read more