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Psalms 148:9

Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:

Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars. Objects are selected eminent in their kind. The cedars, because of their majestic height, are called "the cedars of God:" they proclaim His creative power, (, margin.)

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See also Psalms 148:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 148:9. _MOUNTAINS, AND ALL HILLS_] Whether _primitive, secondary_, or _alluvial_; of _ancient_ or _recent formation_, with all their _contents_, quarries, mines, and minerals. But what a...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MOUNTAINS, AND ALL HILLS - As being among the loftiest objects of earth, raising their heads highest toward the heavens. FRUITFUL TREES, AND ALL CEDARS - Fruitful trees, not as distinguished from thos...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 144-150 THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS The five Psalms with which this marvellous book closeth are all Psalms of praise. The word “praise” is found in the Hebrew thirty-seven times. Each one of these Ps...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CXLVIII. AN INVITATION TO BLESS YAHWEH. It is addressed, Psalms 148:1 to the heavens and all that therein is, Psalms 148:7 to the earth: Psalms 148:13 f. gives the reason for which above all Yahweh is...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Let earth and all that is therein praise Jehovah for the revelation of His majesty....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Cp. Psalms 104:16....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 148 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Praise Invoked from All Creation. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 148:1-6, All Things in Heaven called upon to Praise Jehovahfor Reasons Given. Stanza II., Psalms 148:7-14

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is the 'Gloria in Excelsis' of the Psalter, wherein all created things, animate and inanimate, are called upon to praise Jehovah....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ EVERYTHING - *PRAISE THE *LORD! PSALMS 148 THE 3RD *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus *commanded the wind and the sea, "Be quiet, and stay quiet!" ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MOUNTAINS, AND ALL HILLS. — The invocation now alights on the crests of the highest mountains, and passes downward to the lower hills where vegetable life begins. FRUITFUL TREES. — Rather, _fruit tree...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֶ הָרִ֥ים וְ כָל ־גְּבָעֹ֑ות עֵ֥ץ פְּ֝רִ֗י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 148:1 THE mercy granted to Israel (Psalms 148:14) is, in the psalmist's estimation, worthy to call forth strains of praise from all creatures. It is the same conception as is found in several o...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    CREATION'S SONG OF PRAISE Psalms 148:1-14 The “Benedicite” in the Book of Common Prayer is based on this psalm. The sacred minstrel is not content that he or his people should have a monopoly of prai...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the psalm of the whole creation. It has two movements indicated by the words “From the havens” (v. Psa 148:1), and “From the Earth” (v. Psa 148:7). In the first the scale is a descending one....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    PSALM CXLVIII. (LAUDATE DOMINUM DE C\'8cLIS.) All creatures are invited to praise their Creator. _ Mountains. Thales, Origen, &c., have attributed souls to waters, &c. But this cannot be proved from...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    From heaven, the sacred writer descends to the earth, and calls upon everything, and every object he meets with, or can recall to his mind, to join the hymn, in honour of the One glorious Lord and Mak...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 148 calls first on heaven, and all in it, to take their part in the great Hallelujah, and praise Jehovah who had created and sustains them in their place; and then on the earth, with all in it,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MOUNTAINS, AND ALL HILLS,.... Which are originally formed by the Lord, and set fast by his power and strength; these are the highest parts of the earth, and are very ornamental and useful; they includ...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Ver. 9. _Mountains, and all hills_] These praise God by their form, hugeness, fruits, prospects, &c. _ Fruitful trees_] These, by the variety...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Mountains, and all hills_ These are of great use in the earth. From them descend the running streams into the valleys, without which animals could not live. On the mountains grow those vast trees whi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, those of the orchards, AND ALL CEDARS, representing the forest trees;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    HALLELUJAH BY ALL CREATURES TO THE GOD OF SALVATION. A song of praise, even more extensive in its scope than the preceding, all heavenly creatures being called upon to join with the beings on earth t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-14 Even in this world, dark and bad as it is, God is praised. The powers of nature, be they ever so strong, so stormy, do what God appoints them, and no more. Those that rebel against God's word, s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Admirable for your height, and strength, and use, though not for your fruit....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 148:9 Mountains H2022 hills H1389 Fruitful H6529 trees H6086 cedars H730 Mountains - Psalms 65:12-13,...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We will first read a short Psalm inciting all to praise the Lord, and then we will read part of the first chapter of Luke's Gospel, specially noticing Mary's song of praise. It is a blessed thing to i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: A call to all living things to praise God. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: No place is too high for the praises of the Most High. All creatures on earth should also speak the Lord's praise, f...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This is another hallelujah psalm of Haggai and of Zechariah the prophets, in which all nature is made the choir, and Jehovah the object of the song. Psalms 148:4. _Ye heavens of heavens._ This is the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Mountains and all hills._ MOUNTAIN PICTURES IN SCRIPTURE In Scripture mountains are used to set forth-- I. The place of special communion with God. The Bible often refers to mountains as if, in a s...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Praise ye the Lord from the heavens._ THE GREAT, THE GREATER, AND THE GREATEST: - I. The great. Sun, moon, stars, etc. 1. How boundless in variety. 2. How immeasurable in extent. II. The greater...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 148:1. All of God’s creatures should join in praising him. The concluding verse, regarding God’s special people Israel, may refer to some particular event such as the return...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 148:7 Next the psalm invites the creatures under the heavens to PRAISE THE LORD: the GREAT SEA CREATURES AND ALL ocean...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “In this splendid anthem the Psalmist calls upon the whole creation, in its two great divisions (according to the Hebrew conception) of heaven and earth, to praise Jehovah. Things with an...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been well called "the joy-song of creation." Israel, having received a signal manifestation of the Divine power (Psalms 148:14), calls on all things in heaven and earth to pr...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him from the heights. Praise him, all ye his angels: praise him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun, moon: stars of light. The heavens of heavens, the waters...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 36:1; Isaiah 42:11; Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 55:12

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