Psalm 145- A Praise of David. 1 I will extol You, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever. 3 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable. 4 One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts. 5 They will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on the words of Your wondrous works. 6 Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will declare Your greatness. 7 They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness. 8 Yahweh is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. 9 Yahweh is good to ALL, and His tender mercies are over ALL His works.10 ALL Your works shall praise You, O Yahweh, and Your saints shall bless You. 11 They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, 12 To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom. 13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout ALL generations. 14 Yahweh upholds ALL who fall, and raises up ALL who are bowed down. 15 The eyes of ALL look expectantly to You, and You give them their food in due season. 16 You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. 17 Yahweh is righteous in ALL His ways, gracious in ALL His works. 18 Yahweh is near to ALL who call upon Him, to ALL who call upon Him in truth. 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them. 20 The Lord preserves ALL who love Him, but ALL the wicked He will destroy. 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of Yahweh, and ALL flesh shall bless His holy name forever and ever.
A Praise of David— “after the Lord had granted him all his requests put up in the preceding psalms, and had given him rest from all his enemies; and when he turned his prayers into praises.” (John Gill) “The last six psalms are the Beulah of the book, where the sun shineth night and day, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.“ (George Gilfillan) “The first of these is David's 'Song of Praise' (Ps 145)... The other five have no titles, but each begins and ends with the words 'Praise the Lord'.” (Bridgeway Bible Commentary) And in the Hebrew is an acrostic psalm, but one letter— Nun— is missing. “Cassiodorus quaintly remarks that the psalms in which the alphabetical order is complete, are especially fitted for the righteous in the Church Triumphant, but those in which one letter is missing, are for the Church Militant here on earth, as still imperfect, and needing to be purified from defect.” (Neale and Littledale) Beware, the battle is spiritual in nature, as are the weapons of our arsenal.
“I will extol You,— “exalt above all others; it is the expression of the greatest possible admiration; it is letting others know our high opinion of a person, and endeavouring to win them over to it.” (Philip Bennett Power)— “‘my God, O King’— King of kings, whose vassal I am —“This is the foundation of this whole psalm, as Aben Ezra observes; and shows who is intended and who is the subject of it that is spoken of throughout, even the Messiah, who is the King of the world, the King of the kings of it, the King of Zion, of His church and people, the King of saints, of all believers in Him.” (John Gill) — “’and I will bless Your name for ever and ever.’ Not only to the end of my life in this world, but to all eternity in the world to come.” (Joseph Benson) “Let each Christian reader present his own praise unto the Lord, and call it by his own name. What a wealth of varied praise will thus be presented through Christ Jesus!” (C. H. Spurgeon)
“’Every day I will bless You," As there are ‘seven spirits’ peculiarly existing in nearness to God, David holds the seven days of the week like seven stars in his hand, or like a seven-branched candlestick of gold, burning every day with his devotion. He calls the seven days to be as seven angels with trumpets.” (Thomas Le Blanc) “No day shall pass me without a morning and evening sacrifice; besides, what is more, upon all emergent occasions…If I were a nightingale, saith Epictetus,… I would do as a nightingale; but since I am a man, what shall I do? I will praise my Maker, and never cease to do it: I exhort also all men to do the like.” (John Trapp) — “‘and I will praise Your name forever and ever.’ (2) because the name of a person “is the character he hath amongst men.” (Joseph Caryl)
“‘Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.’ (3) There are many more things that Jesus did. If all of them were written down, I suppose that not even the world itself would have space for the books that would be written.” (John 21:25) ”And as the greatness of our God and Saviour hath no bounds, so His praises should have no end; nor should the voice of thanksgiving ever cease in the church. As one generation drops it, another should take it up, and prolong the delightful strain till the sun and moon shall withdraw their light, and the stars fall extinguished from their orbs.” (Bp Horne)
“‘One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.’(4) Deu 4:9. Fathers teaching their sons the goodness and glory of God. This was a legal ordinance.” (Martin Geier) “Each generation catches the strains from the last, echoes it, and passes it along to the next. One generation declares what it has seen, and passes on the praise to the generation which has not seen as yet the wonders celebrated.” (Simon De Muis) “When Elijah is carried into heaven, Elisha must follow in the power and spirit of Elias. When one stream is slid and shed into the ocean, another circulates from the same ocean through the bowels of the earth into the springs under the mountains, and refreshes the scorched plains. When one star sets, another rises to guide the wandering traveller, and at length the bright morning lamp glitters in the east, and then the glorious Sun of Righteousness. While the Church sits fainting under a juniper tree in the wilderness, there shall fly prophets to feed her till the blessed resurrection of the witnesses. It's our high duty to study present work, and prize present help, and greatly rejoice when the Lord sends forth, as once he did, both Boanerges and Barnabas together. Pray for the mantle, girdle, and blessing of Elijah, for the love of John, and the zeal of Paul, to twine hands together to draw souls to heaven; till the Beloved comes like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of spices; till the shadows flee away; till the day dawn, and the Day star arise in your hearts.” (Samuel Lee)
“They will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on the words of Your wondrous works.’(5) — the Bible. Thus David “declares that the records left of God's olden doings in the history of Israel are very precious. He has heard them. Moses and Aaron and others spoke them. He delights in them; he will sing them again on his own harp.” (Hermann Venema) “‘Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts,’ The word which we here translate ‘speak,’ is considered by Hebrew critics to include also the idea of ‘expatiating,’ ‘speaking at large;’ not merely ‘alluding to incidentally,’ but ‘entering into particulars;’ as though one took delight in speaking upon the matter in hand.” (Henry Cowles)—“and I will declare Your greatness;’ (6) declare, “not merely to predicate as a fact, but to proclaim in praise. The Hebrew word has this width of meaning; not merely to declare in cold utterance.” (Hermann Venema)
“‘They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness).’ (7) My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness, holding within the veil. “‘Yahweh is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy.’ (8) “The proclamation of the Lord to Moses (Exo 34:6) is the fountain head of these epithets.” (James G. Murphy) “‘Yahweh is good to ALL,’ not to Israel only, but to all mankind, whose hearts he fills with food and gladness, as it is said, Acts 14:17 ‘ He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons,’ etc. -- ‘and His tender mercies are over ALL His works.’” (9) (Matthew Poole)
“‘ALL Your works shall praise You, O Yahweh, and Your saints shall bless You. They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom.’ (10-12) for the extension of His knowledge and perfections in the world. That kingdom of the saints of the Most High, which is far beyond the grandeur and splendour of all the four great monarchies, as is to be seen Daniel 7:27.” (John Trapp)
“‘Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout ALL generations.’ (13) (Cp. Daniel 4:3-How great are His signs And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom And His dominion is from generation to generation; Daniel 4:34-But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever; For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom endures from generation to generation.) It "is graven in the keystone of a very old building in Damascus, once a Christian church but for many centuries a mosque.” (F.B. Meyer)
“‘Yahweh upholds ALL who fall, and raises up ALL who are bowed down. You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. Yahweh is righteous in ALL His ways, gracious in ALL His works.” (14-17) “‘The eyes of all living creatures wait upon thee; expect and receive their supplies wholly from thy bounty. Expectation is here figuratively ascribed to brute creatures, as Romans 8:22.- '... the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.’” (Matthew Poole) — ‘in due season.’ (15) Christ the first fruit nd those who are His at His Coming.
To mankind- “Yahweh is near to ALL who call upon Him, to ALL who call upon Him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them. Yahweh preserves ALL who love Him- He keeps them; watches over them; defends them; makes them the object of his care….(Romans 10:8-13) 'But ALL the wicked He will destroy.’ (18-20) All that on the final trial deserve to be classed with the wicked.” (Albert Barnes) “This is a general statement, but it informs us so far as it goes, and it is in complete harmony with the language of the rest of Scripture…” (Edward Fudge) concerning final punishment after judgment. After which— “’My mouth shall speak the praise of Yahweh, and ALL flesh shall bless His holy name forever and ever.’ (21) The Psalmist thus concludes, as he had begun; except that he here called on others to do, what himself had before determined on.” (Thomas Scott)