Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 113:1
Ye servants of the Lord — i.e., Israel. (See Psalms 69:36.)
Ye servants of the Lord — i.e., Israel. (See Psalms 69:36.)
PSALM CXIII _An exhortation to bless God for his own excellencies_, 1-6; _and for his great mercy to the poor and necessitous_, 7-9. NOTES ON PSALM CXIII Psalms 113,...
PRAISE YE THE LORD - Margin, as in Hebrew, “Hallelujah.” See the notes at Psalms 106:1. PRAISE, O YE SERVANTS OF THE LORD - You who profess to serve and obey him; who acknowledge him as your God. In...
Psalms 113 Hallelujah! Praise His Name! This third Hallelujah Psalm begins with a Hallelujah and ends with Hallelujah. It is given in the Authorized Version as “Praise ye the Lord” (as in all these...
CXIII. GOD ON HIGH CARES FOR THE LOWLY. Psalms 113:7. The dunghill is like Job's, waste and refuse heaped up outside the village and still the refuge of lepers and diseased persons of one kind or ano...
The third of these three Hallelujah Psalms (111, 113). The Psalms of this group are called the Hallel Psalms (113, 118). Psalms 113 and 114 were sung before the Paschal meal (but after the second of t...
_An exhortation to praise God for his excellency, and for his mercy._ THIS and the five following psalms, were by the Jews called הלל _hallel,_ or _hymns;_ they were made use of at the feasts of the n...
PSALMS 113 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song of Sublime Simplicity: reaching its Climax by Rejoicing with a Glad Mother! ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 113:1-3, Praise Invited from Jehovah's Servants, for All T...
Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. This psalm praises Yahweh as the Raiser of the poor out of the dust: Israel after the captivity primarily, and ul...
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...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE SERVANTS’ SONG PSALMS 113 THE FIRST EGYPTIAN HALLEL And when Jesus and his friends had sung a psalm, they went out to the *Mount of Olives ...
הַ֥לְלוּ יָ֨הּ ׀ הַ֭לְלוּ עַבְדֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַֽ֝לְלוּ...
Psalms 113:1 THIS pure burst of praise is the first of the psalms composing the Hallel, which was sung at the three great feasts (Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles), as well as at the...
THE MIGHTY GOD UPLIFTETH THE LOWLY Psalms 113:1; Psalms 114:1 We detect the song of Samuel's mother in the first of these psalms. She sang the Old Testament “Magnificat” and it was embalmed by the ps...
This is the first of six psalms which constitute the Hallel or Hymn of Praise, which the Hebrews sang at Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. This group is necessarily of special interes...
Praise ye the LORD. (a) Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. (a) By this often repetition he stirs up our cold dullness to praise God, seeing his works are so wonderful, an...
Alleluia. This word is placed at the end of the preceding psalm in Hebrew, though it seems to have been there originally, (Haydock) as [in] ver. 2., we find his, with reference to "the Lord," who has...
CONTENTS The general subject of this psalm is praise. The sacred writer calls upon all to praise the Lord, from sun-rise to sun-set. Every individual of intelligent creation is supposed to be interes...
The prophet Malachi looking into gospel days, declared, that the name of Jehovah should be great among the Gentiles, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Malachi 1:11. To this mos...
_THE LORD’S NAME BE PRAISED!_ ‘Praise the name of the Lord.’ Psalms 113:1 I. AS GOD HAS GIVEN HIMSELF A NAME THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME, and has therein revealed His nature for all times and the who...
1_Praise, ye servants of Jehovah! _This psalm contains abundant reasons for all men without exception to praise God. The faithful alone being endued with spiritual perception to recognize the hand of...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 111 THROUGH 113. Psalms 111-113 go together as a hallelujah in reference to Jehovah's ways with Israel in their deliverance. First, Psalms 111, the works of Jeho...
PRAISE YE THE LORD,.... Or, "hallelujah". This is the title of the psalm, as in the two preceding, and directs to the principal matter of it. PRAISE, O YE SERVANTS OF THE LORD; meaning not the angels...
Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. Ver. 1. _Hallelujah_] See Psalms 111:1 . _ Praise, O ye servants of the Lord_] None but such can do it, or are fit...
_Praise, O ye servants of the Lord_ Ye Levites, who are peculiarly devoted to this solemn work, and sometimes termed God's servants, in a special sense, and all you faithful souls. _Blessed be the nam...
Praise ye the Lord, this being the third hallelujah psalm, setting forth the majesty of God, together with His mercy in dealing with the humble. It was used as the introduction to the great hallel sun...
PRAISE OF GOD'S MERCY TOWARD THE LOWLY....
PRAISE YE: _ Heb._ Hallelujah...
PSALM 113 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm is a declaration of God's powerful and universal providence towards all men, and especially towards his afflicted people. An exhortation for all men to praise the Lor...
Psalms 113:1 Praise H1984 (H8761) LORD H3050 Praise H1984 (H8761) servants H5650 LORD H3068 Praise H1984 ...
We will read, this evening, two passages in the Word of God; the first will be Psalms 113:1 . Psalms 113:1. _Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD._ Thre...
CONTENTS: A call to praise God. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Praise is a duty the believer should much abound in and in which he should be frequently employed, for in every place there appears the m...
This and the five following psalms form the great HALLEL, or hymn of praise, sung at the passover and other festivals of the Jews. They celebrate, as the word imports, the _shinings forth, eradiations...
_Praise the name of the Lord._ HIGHEST SERVICE AND THE HIGHEST BEING I. The highest service in which intelligent creatures can engage. What is praise? Not verbal laudation, however enthusiastic in f...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 113:1. This short hymn of praise celebrates the way in which the great God who rules over all takes notice of the lowly. Such a God is indeed worthy to be praised by all man...
INTRODUCTION 1. Another of the Hallelujah Psalms 2. Date and authorship unknown. 3. The first of six Psalms in the Jewish liturgy (113–118) termed Hallel, or the Egyptian _Hallel_, as distinguished f...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the "Hallel" psalms, or of those sung at the Feasts of the Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. It is a "Hallelujah psalm," like the two preceding, but is not alphabe...
Psa 113:1-9 begins and ends with Hallelujah. Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of Yahweh. Blessed be the name of the LORD (Psalms 113:1-2) Or blessed be the name...
Ephesians 5:19; Ephesians 5:20; Mark 2:1; Matthew 26:30; Psalms 103:20