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Verse Psalms 117:2. _FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS IS GREAT_] גבר
_gabar_, is _strong_: it is not only _great_ in _bulk_ or _number_,
but it is _powerful_; it _prevails_ over _sin, Satan, death_, and
_hel...
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FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS IS GREAT TOWARD US - His kindness; his
compassion; his love. All nations - all people - may say this, and
therefore the psalm is adapted to universal praise. Especially may
t...
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Psalms 117
This is the shortest Psalm. All the earth, all the nations, are now
called upon to praise, because His merciful kindness has been great
towards His people Israel. And their blessing means...
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CXVII. All nations are invited to worship Yahweh, who has revealed His
power and faithfulness to Israel. The Ps. is Messianic in the general
sense that it contemplates the union of all nations in the...
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MERCIFUL KINDNESS. lovingkindness, or grace.
IS GREAT TOWARD. overcame, or prevailed over. Compare Psalms 103:11.
PRAISE YE THE LORD. Hebrew Hallelu-Jah. App-4....
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DISCOURSE: 693
THE GENTILES CALLED TO PRAISE GOD
Psalms 117. _O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye
people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of
the Lord end...
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PSALMS 117
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
All Nations Invited to Join in Israel's Tribute of Praise.
ANALYSIS
By Synonyms of Unmistakable Universality, All Nations are Invited to
Praise Jehovah for his Kindnes...
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For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the
LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS IS GREAT TOWARD US: AND THE TRUTH OF THE
LORD ENDURETH FORE...
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117:2 great (g-5) Or 'is powerful,' lit. 'it has prevailed.' see
Psalms 103:11 ....
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The shortest chapter in the Bible, and the middle chapter. It is a
doxology, calling all peoples to praise Jehovah. It may have been
appended to some Ps....
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
THE SHORTEST PSALM
PSALMS 117
THE FIFTH EGYPTIAN HALLEL
JESUS SAID, "I HAVE OTHER SHEEP. THEY DO NOT LIVE AT THIS FARM. I MUST
FETCH THEM ALSO AND THEY WILL HEA...
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CXVII.
This, shortest of all the psalms, might well be called _multum in
parvo,_ for in its few words it contains, as St. Paul felt (Romans
15:11), the germ of the great doctrine of the universality...
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כִּ֥י גָ֘בַ֤ר עָלֵ֨ינוּ ׀ חַסְדֹּ֗ו
וֶֽ אֱמֶת ־יְהוָ֥ה לְ עֹולָ֗ם
הַֽלְלוּ ־יָֽהּ׃...
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Psalms 117:1
THIS shortest of the psalms is not a fragment, though some MSS attach
it to the preceding and some to the following psalm. It contains large
"riches in a narrow room," and its very brevi...
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PRAISE HIM FOR ALL HIS BENEFITS
Psalms 116:12; Psalms 117:1
The psalmist dwells joyfully on his enslavement to God, because in and
through it he had found perfect liberty. _Thou hast loosed my bonds...
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The fifth song of the Hallel is the shortest in the Psalter. In it in
a very deep sense, is fulfilled the saying so common that “Brevity
is the soul of wit.” It lives indeed with the wisdom of perfect...
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For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the (a) truth of the
LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
(a) That is, the most certain and continual testimony of his fatherly
graces....
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PSALM CXVII. (CONFITEMINI DOMINO.)
The psalmist praiseth God for his delivery from evils; putteth his
whole trust in him; and foretelleth the coming of Christ.
_ That he is good, is not here in Hebr...
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REFLECTIONS
READER! contemplate the blessed contents of this psalm, and let the
saving interest we as Gentiles bear in it, bring it home to our hearts
with a tenfold joy and satisfaction. In order to...
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_THE CRY OF FAITH AND JOY_
‘I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.’
Psalms 117:1
We shall never, I suppose, know from whose lips and hearts this cry of
faith and joy first sp...
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The_truth _of God, in this passage, is properly introduced as an
attestation of his grace. For he can be true even when he menaces the
whole world with perdition and ruin. The prophet, however, has pl...
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Psalms 117 is the calling the other nations and peoples to come and
praise Jehovah, who will be now King over all the earth. They join and
are brought happily into this relationship, Jehovah being mad...
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FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS IS GREAT TOWARDS US,.... Not us Israelites
only, of whom David was, but Gentiles also; or otherwise there would
be no force in the reason why all people and nations should pr...
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For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the
LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
Ver. 2. _For his merciful kindness is great_] _Invaluit,_ hath
prevailed over us, brea...
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_O praise the Lord, all ye nations_ Let not the praises that are due
to the great Lord of all, be confined to our nation; but let all
people upon the face of the earth praise him. _For his merciful
ki...
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THE UNIVERSAL KINGDOM OF MESSIAH.
The shortest hymn in the Psalter, portraying, in a few words, the
Church of God of all times in its relation to Jehovah, the God of
salvation. The truth expressed in...
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TOWARD US; either,
1. Towards us Jews, to whom he hath given those peculiar privileges
which he hath denied to all other nations. But this may seem an
improper argument to move the Gentiles to praise...
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Psalms 117:2 merciful H2617 kindness H2617 great H1396 (H8804) truth
H571 LORD H3068 forever H5769 Praise H1984 (H8761) LORD H3050
Psalms 85:10, Psalms 89:1, Psalms 100:4-5; Isaiah 25:1
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CONTENTS: A solemn call to the nations to praise God.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The Lord is kind to us as His creatures and merciful to us
as sinners, therefore praise is due Him from all peoples...
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This psalm, like Psalms 113., is a prophecy of the conversion of the
gentiles: so it is cited by St. Paul in Romans 15:11. Some critics
regard it as an exordium to the hundred and eighteenth psalm. It...
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_O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise Him, all ye people._
AN EXHORTATION TO PRAISE GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS
1. In God’s worship it is not always necessary to be long; few words
sometimes say what...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 117:1. This short hymn invites ALL
NATIONS to PRAISE THE LORD. The Lord’s STEADFAST LOVE and
FAITHFULNESS (Exodus 34:6) is pledged to Israel but is intended for
all the worl...
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INTRODUCTION
1. Authorship, &c., unknown.
2. Probably a liturgical introduction to, or dismissal from, a
service, either by separate choirs or the whole people.
3. “The lyrical expression of the cons...
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EXPOSITION
IT has been doubted whether this exceedingly short psalm can ever have
been in tended for a separate composition, and was not rather written
as a conclusion to Psalms 116:1. or an introduct...
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Beginning with Psalms 113:1-9, you have what are known as the Hallel
psalms, meaning the psalms of praise. Hallel meaning praise in Hebrew,
and hallelujah, the hallelujah praise to Yahweh. So these ar...
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1 John 5:6; Isaiah 25:1; John 14:6; Luke 1:54; Luke 1:55; Micah 7:20;
Psalms 1:1; Psalms 85:10; Psalms 89:1; Romans 15:8;...