Psalm 117— Hallelujah
1 Praise Yah, all you nations! Praise Him, all you people of the world! 2 His mercy toward us is powerful. Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever. Hallelujah!
Praise Yah, that is Yeshua, the Messiah of Israel, for the victory— the resurrection of the righteous and His cup of salvation (Ps116). All they who hear of this God are bound by duty to praise Him. (David Dickson) This Hallel “calls upon all mankind to praise the name of the Lord.” (C. H. Spurgeon) "We belong to that very company or innumerable multitude, whom the Holy Spirit here addresses; and He calls on every one of us to join our Hallelujahs with those of His ancient people : and ‘therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard.’” (Thomas Scott) But I believe that it is prophetic in nature— that we will sing this song together in New Jerusalem on Sabbath as a doxology. We will then drink of the cup of last cup of the Seder meal, the cup of adoption. "Then you shall know that I am Yahweh your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians."(Exo 6:7) "I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until the day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.” (Matthew 26:29)
“Christianity alone, of all so-called faiths, overleaps all geographical limits and lives in all centuries. It alone wins its trophies and bestows its gifts on all sorts and conditions of men. Other plants which the ‘Heavenly Father hath not planted,’ have their zones of vegetation and die outside certain degrees of latitude; but the seed of the kingdom is like corn, an exotic nowhere, for wherever man lives it will grow, and yet an exotic everywhere, for it came down from Heaven. Other food requires an educated palate for its appreciation, but any hungry man in any land will relish [this] Bread. For every soul on earth this living, dying love of the Lord Jesus Christ addresses itself to and satisfies his deepest wants. It is the Bread which gives life to the world.” (A. Maclaren)