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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Psalms 148:2-6

He next looks to the heavenly host, angels, and the brighter order of celestial beings, who minister unceasingly to Jehovah. John in a vision, beheld the hierarchies thus engaged, and heard their songs, which the Holy Ghost was pleased to commission him to deliver to the church, Revelation 4:1 and Revelation 5:1 throughout.

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See also Psalms 148:2-6 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS ANGELS - Dwelling in the heavens. Compare the notes at Psalms 103:20. PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS HOSTS - See the notes at Psalms 103:21 and the notes at...

  • 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 the heavens and all that is in them praise Jehovah their Creator....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Cp. Psalms 103:20 _a_, Psalms 103:21 _a. Hosts_may include both heavenly beings and heavenly bodies, and in Job 38:7 angels and stars join in praise: but here as in...

  • 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

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. PRAISE YE HIM ... ALL HIS HOSTS - (.) The sun, moon, and stars are the material, the angels, the immaterial portion of "His hosts." The...

  • 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!" ...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַֽלְל֥וּהוּ כָל ־מַלְאָכָ֑יו הַֽ֝לְל֗וּהוּ כָּל־_צְבָאָֽיו_†׃...

  • 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....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Praise ye him, all (a) his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. (a) Because they are members of the same body, he sets them before our eyes, who are most willing and by their prompt obedience teach...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hosts. Stars, (Calmet) or rather angels. (St. Chrysostom) (Matthew xxvi. 52.) --- The three children made the same invitation to them, rejoicing in this holy communion. [Daniel iii.] (Berthier)_...

  • 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

    PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS ANGELS,.... The Targum adds, who minister before him: the ministering spirits, the angels of Jehovah, even of Christ, who are his creatures, and at his command; and whom he send...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. Ver. 2. _Praise ye him, all his angels_] Whose proper office it is to adore and praise God, Job 38:7 Isa 6:3 Hebrews 1:6, which also they...

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

    _Praise ye the Lord_ Bishop Lowth, speaking of the origin of this divine ode, observes, “that it had its birth from the most pleasing affections of the human soul, joy, love, admiration.” “If we conte...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Praise ye Him, all His angels, the messengers of the supreme Ruler of the universe; PRAISE YE HIM, ALL HIS HOSTS, the armies of the God of Sabaoth....

  • 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

    1-6 We, in this dark and sinful world, know little of the heavenly world of light. But we know that there is above us a world of blessed angels. They are always praising God, therefore the psalmist s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He inviteth the angels here, and the senseless creatures afterward, to praise God; not as if the former needed, or the latter were capable of, his exhortation, but only by a poetical rapture; the desi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 148:2 Praise H1984 (H8761) angels H4397 Praise H1984 (H8761) hosts H6635 all his angels -...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

  • 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

    _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 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 3:12; Genesis 2:1; Isaiah 6:2; Job 38:7; Psalms 103:20;...

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