1Ch 16:34, 41, 2Ch 7:3, Psa 103:17, 106:1, 107:1, 135:3, Psa 136 | TSK | STEP

(Title.)As part of the preceding Psalm is found in 1 Ch ch. 16, so the first and two last verses of this are found in the same place; and it is highly probable this was composed upon the same occasion as the former, to which it seems to be a continuation; for as that celebrates the mercies of God to Israel, so this confesses and deplores the rebellions of Israel against Jehovah.

Praise ye the Lord. Heb. Hallelujah.

105:45

O give.

100:4,5; 107:1; 118:1; 136:1; 1Ch 16:34; Ezr 3:11; Jer 33:11

1Th 5:18

for he.

103:17; 119:68; Mt 19:17; Ro 5:20,21

Psalms 107:1

1 The psalmist exhorts the redeemed, in praising God, to observe his manifold providence,

4 over travellers;

10 over captives;

17 over sick men;

23 over seamen;

33 and in divers varieties of life.

A.M. 3468. B.C. 536. (Title.)The author of this Psalm is unknown; but it was evidently written to commemorate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity; and it may easily be perceived that it must have been sung in alternate parts, having a double burden, or two intercalary verses often recurring. Bp. Lowth considers it as written "after the method of the ancient pastorals, where, be the subject of their verse what it will, each swain endeavours to excel the other; and one may perceive their thoughts and expressions gradually to rise upon each other." "No doubt," he adds, "the composition of this Psalm is admirable throughout; and the descriptive part of it adds at least its share of beauty to the whole; but what is most to be admired is its conciseness, and withal the expressiveness of the diction, which strikes the imagination with illimitable elegance. The weary and bewildered traveller--the miserable captive in the dungeon--the sick and dying man--the seaman foundering in a storm--are described in so affecting a manner, that they far exceed any thing of the kind, though never so much laboured."

Give.

106:1; 118:1; 136:1-26; 1Ch 16:34,41; 2Ch 5:13; 7:3,6; 20:21

good.

119:68; Mt 19:17

for his mercy.

103:17; Lu 1:50

Psalms 135:3

for the Lord.

106:1; 107:1; 118:1; 119:68; 136:1; 145:7,8; Mt 19:17

for it is.

33:1; 63:5; 92:1,2; 147:1

Psalms 136

1 An exhortation to give thanks to God for particular mercies.

(Title.)This Psalm is little else than a repetition of the preceding, with the addition of the burden, "for his mercy endureth for ever," at the end of each verse; and it was doubtless composed on the same occasion. It seems evidently to have been a responsive song; the first part of the verse being probably sung by the Levites, and the burden by the people.

Give thanks.

105:1; 106:1; 107:1; 118:1; 119:68; 2Ch 7:3,6; Ezr 3:11; Jer 33:11

for his mercy.

103:17; 1Ch 16:34,41; 2Ch 20:21; Lu 1:50; Jude 1:21

the God.

82:1; 97:7,9; Ex 18:11; De 10:17; Jos 22:22; 2Ch 2:5; Da 2:47

the Lord.

1Ti 6:15; Re 17:14; 19:16

who alone.

72:18; 86:10; Ex 15:11; Job 5:9; Re 15:3 In the contrivance of the celestial bodies--in their specific gravities, relations, connections, influences on each other, revolutions, etc.; and in the wonderful adaptation of the atmosphere for the purposes of refracting the light, forming rain, dew, snow, etc., are exhibited the most astonishing displays of the Divine wisdom.

33:6; 104:24; Ge 1:1; Pr 3:19,20; 8:22-29; Jer 51:15

24:2; 104:2,3; Ge 1:9; Job 26:7; 37:18; Isa 40:22; 44:24; Jer 10:12

Zec 12:1; 2Pe 3:5-7

74:16,17; 104:19; Ge 1:14-19; De 4:19

The sun.

148:3; Jer 31:35; Mt 5:45

to rule. Heb. for the rulings.

The moon and stars.The sun is the monarch of day, the state of light; the moon of the night, the state of darkness. The rays of the sun falling on the atmosphere, are refracted and diffused over the whole of the hemisphere of the earth immediately under his orb; while those rays of that vast luminary which, because of the earth's smallness in comparison with the sun, are diffused on all sides beyond the earth, falling on the opaque disc of the moon, are reflected back on the lower hemisphere, or the part of the earth opposite the sun. But the reflected light being 50,000 times less in intensity than that of the sun, there is a sufficient distinction between day and night, though each is ruled and determined by one of these two great lights.

8:3; 89:36,37; Job 31:26

78:51; 105:36; 135:8; Ex 11:5,6; 12:12,29; Heb 11:28

brought out.

78:52; 105:37; Ex 12:51; 13:3,17; 1Sa 12:6-8

Ex 6:6; 13:14; 15:6; De 11:2-4; Isa 51:9,10; Jer 32:21; Ac 7:36

66:5,6; 74:13; 78:13; 106:9-11; Ex 14:21,22,29; Isa 63:12,13

Heb 11:29

pass through.

78:13; 106:9; Ex 14:22

But overthrew. Heb. But shaked off.

78:53; 135:9; Ex 14:27,28; 15:4,5,10,11; Ne 9:10,11

for his mercy.