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HE GIVETH SNOW LIKE WOOL - He covers the earth with snow, so that it
seems to have a clothing of wool. Compare the notes at Job 37:6 :
“For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth.”
HE SCATTERETH...
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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...
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CXLVII. The LXX, perhaps rightly, divides the Ps. into two, Psalms
147:1 and Psalms 147:12.
PSALMS 147:1. An invitation to praise Yahweh for His almighty power
and His kindness to Israel. Observe how...
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Zion is summoned to praise Jehovah for the blessings of peace and
prosperity. The Lord of Nature is He Who has endowed Israel with
unique privileges....
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A reminiscence of Isaiah 55:10-11. As in Psalms 107:20 the Word or
command of God is personified. The word for _commandment_(lit.
-saying") is cognate with the verb _spake_in Psalms 33:9;...
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"Snow must always have been rare in Central and Southern Palestine,"
and "frost is very rare at Jerusalem." Tristram, _Nat. Hist. of
Bible_, p. 28. They would therefore be more striking phenomena than...
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HE GIVETH SNOW, &C.— The winters in the east, in some years, and at
some places, are remarkably cold and severe. Fulcherius Carnotensis
saw the cold prove deadly to many. Jac. de Vitriaco informs us,...
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PSALMS 147
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Praise for the Restoration of Jerusalem and for Israel's Preeminence:
with Grateful Recognition of Rain and of Spring.
ANALYSIS
After the Repetition and Expansion of th...
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He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
HE GIVETH SNOW LIKE WOOL: HE SCATTERETH THE HOAR-FROST LIKE ASHES. HE
CASTETH FORTH HIS ICE LIKE MORSELS: WHO CAN STAND BEFORE HIS...
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A song of praise in which the Psalmist recounts God's mercies (1) in
restoring Jerusalem, (2) in helping those cast down, (3) in caring for
the animal world, and (4) in the changing seasons....
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
GOD’S LOVE AND *POWER
PSALMS 147
THE 2ND *HALLELUJAH PSALM
Jesus said, "If God makes the grass green (so that it looks right),
how much more will
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LIKE WOOL. — Both in whiteness and fleecy texture. “The snow falls
in large flakes, equal in size to a walnut, and has more resemblance
to locks of wool than it has in our country” (Niven, _Biblical
A...
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הַ נֹּתֵ֣ן שֶׁ֣לֶג כַּ † צָּ֑מֶר
כְּ֝פֹ֗ור...
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Psalms 147:1
THE threefold calls to praise Jehovah (Psalms 147:1, Psalms 147:7,
Psalms 147:12) divide this psalm into three parts, the two fo
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PEACE AND PROSPERITY
Psalms 147:12-20
From Psalms 147:12 on there is a more personal address to Jerusalem
and Zion. The _thee_ and _thou_ justify the application of the psalm
to the spiritual cond...
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In this psalm, beginning with a call which declares the pleasantness
and comeliness of praise (v. Psa 147:1), the singer first celebrates
the Divine activity in restoring His people (vv. Psa 147:2-6)....
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New and increasing claims are upon Zion, for renewed instances of
divine favor. And, Reader! this is your case, and mine. Every day, nay
every moment, Jesus visits his people, Isaiah 27:3. And how are...
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In Psalms 147 the saints take their place now in Jerusalem and Zion to
say what He is. He is their God; He builds up Jerusalem and gathers
together the outcasts of Israel, healing the broken in heart...
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HE GIVETH SNOW LIKE WOOL,.... For colour as white as wool; so the
Targum and Kimchi: and for the manner of its falling, lightly and
gently as a lock of wool; which for its thinness and fineness it als...
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He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Ver. 16. _He giveth snow like wool_] For whiteness, lightness, plenty,
softness, warmth; for snow, though it be very cold, yet by kee...
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_He giveth snow like wool_ Not only in colour, and shape, and
softness, and its falling silently like a lock of wool; but in its
covering the earth and keeping it warm, and so promoting its
fruitfulne...
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He giveth snow like wool, the snowflakes coming down like small
particles of wool; HE SCATTERETH THE HOARFROST LIKE ASHES, all objects
being powdered with the congealed dew or fog....
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HALLELUJAH TO THE GOD OF ZION.
A Hallelujah Psalm, setting forth God's providential care toward all
creatures, but especially toward His people, His holy congregation....
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12-20 The church, like Jerusalem of old, built up and preserved by
the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, is exhorted to praise him for
all the benefits and blessings vouchsafed to her; and these ar...
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SNOW LIKE WOOL; not only in colour, and shape, and softness, but also
in use, keeping the fruits of the earth warm. HOAR-FROST like ashes;
in colour and smallness of parts, as also in its burning qual...
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Psalms 147:16 gives H5414 (H8802) snow H7950 wool H6785 scatters H6340
(H8762) frost H3713 ashes H665...
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Psalms 147:16
I. Look, first, at the beauty of the snow. It makes a spiritual world
of this dull, dark earth of ours; and the fields that seemed fit only
for the growth of man's food and the tread of...
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This is one of the Hallelujah Psalms; it begins and ends with «Praise
ye the LORD.» May our hearts be in tune, that we may praise the Lord
while we read these words of praise!
Psalms 147:1. _Praise y...
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Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto
our God; for it is pleasant;_
Ye that know him, ye that love him, «praise ye the Lord.» «It is
good: «it is right, it is accepta...
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Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD:_
This Psalm begins and ends with Hallelujah. So may this service, and
so may our lives, commence and conclude with Hallelujah!
Psalms 147:1. For it is good to sing...
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This Book of Psalms ends its golden stream in a cataract of praise.
The last Psalms are Hallelujah Psalms; this one begins and ends, as
several others do, with «Hallelujah.»
Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye...
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Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto
our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely._
«It is good,» that is to say, it is a thing that ought to be done,
it is a r...
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CONTENTS: A call to praise God. The greatness and condescending
goodness of the Lord celebrated.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Praise is comely it becomes us as reasonable creatures on
account of God...
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This psalm, like the preseding, is without title in the Hebrew or
Chaldee; but is ascribed by the Versions to Haggai and Zechariah.
REFLECTIONS.
The people are here exhorted to praise God for all th...
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_He hath strengthened the bars of thy gates._
PIETY EXULTING IN DIVINE GOODNESS
I. In the general prosperity of society. He recognizes the good hand
of God--
1. In the rebuilding of the city (verse...
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_He giveth snow like wool._
FROST AND THAW
Looking out of our window one morning we saw the earth robed in a
white mantle; for in a few short bourn the earth had been covered to a
considerable depth...
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ONE OF GOD'S WORKMEN
He scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. Psalms 147:16.
Today we are going to speak about someone whom we all know, who is
indeed one of our very good friends though perhaps the...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 147:1. Here the praise is focused on
gratitude for some great work of “building up Jerusalem” (or
rebuilding it after the exile), and for the Creator who sustains his
creati...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 147:12 Jerusalem, representing all of God’s
people, should PRAISE THE LORD. He alone provides security and
prosperity (vv....
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INTRODUCTION
“Like the last Psalm, and like those which follow it, this is
evidently an anthem intended for the service of the Second Temple. It
celebrates God’s almighty and gracious rule over His pe...
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EXPOSITION
This psalm is generally assigned to the time of the dedication of the
city wall (Nehemiah 12:27-16), when the gate-towers had been set up,
and the gates and bars put in their places (see Ps...
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Praise ye the LORD [or hallelujah]: for it is good to sing praises
unto our God; it's pleasant; praise is comely [or desirable,
beautiful]. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the
ou...
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Isaiah 55:10; Job 37:10; Job 37:6; Job 37:9; Job 38:29;...
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Like wool — Not only in colour and shape, and softness, but also in
use, keeping the fruits of the earth warm. Ashes — In colour and
smallness of parts, as also in its burning quality....