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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Psalms 145

Psalms 145:1

PSALM 145 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm and the rest which follow to the end are wholly laudatory, setting forth the praises of God. The excellency of this Psalm appears not only from the opinion of the Hebrew writers, but also from the care which the psalmist took to digest it into such accurate and alph... [ Continue Reading ]

Psalms 145:5

THE GLORIOUS HONOUR OF THY MAJESTY: here are divers words heaped together, to intimate that no words were sufficient to express it.... [ Continue Reading ]

Psalms 145:9

IS GOOD TO ALL; not to Israel only, but to all mankind, whose hearts he fills with food and gladness, as it is said, ACTS 14:17; yea, to all his creatures, as it is in the next clause, to beasts as well as men. See PSALMS 136:25, PSALMS 147:9.... [ Continue Reading ]

Psalms 145:14

UPHOLDETH ALL; either, 1. All that look up to him for help: or, 2. All that are upheld; whose support is not from themselves, nor from other men, but only from God's powerful and good providence.... [ Continue Reading ]

Psalms 145:15

THE EYES OF ALL living creatures wait upon thee; expect and receive their supplies wholly from thy bounty. Expectation is here figuratively ascribed to brute creatures, as PSALMS 104:27 ROMANS 8:22. IN DUE SEASON; when they need it.... [ Continue Reading ]

Psalms 145:16

Or, as divers render it, and which is more agreeable to the order of the words in the Hebrew text, thou satisfiest every living thing with thy favour or good-will, i.e. with the fruits of thy bounty; the pronoun _thy_ being easily and fitly understood out of the foregoing clause.... [ Continue Reading ]

Psalms 145:17

HOLY; or rather, merciful, as this word most commonly signifies. There is a mixture of mercy in the most severe and terrible works of God in this life, _judgment without mercy_ being reserved for the next life, JAMES 2:13 REVELATION 14:10.... [ Continue Reading ]

Psalms 145:18

IS NIGH UNTO ALL THEM, to answer their prayers for relief, THAT CALL UPON HIM IN TRUTH; sincerely, or with an upright heart, trusting to him, and waiting upon him in his way.... [ Continue Reading ]

Psalms 145:19

FULFIL THE DESIRE, so far as it is agreeable to his own will, and convenient for their good; not inordinate desires, which God commonly denies to his people in mercy, and granteth to his enemies in anger.... [ Continue Reading ]

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