Psalm 150 The Last Psalm- An Eternal Hallelujah
1 Praise you Yah! Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in His mighty firmament! 2 Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to His excellent greatness! 3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the lute and harp! 4 Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes! 5 Praise Him with loud cymbals; praise Him with clashing cymbals! 6 Let everything that has breath praise Yah. Praise you Yah!
The remnant has been saved. Thirteen times is the word “praise” used, “according to the number of the tribes (Levi, Ephraim and Manasseh making three), one for each.” (John Henry Michaelis) “It is as if a great broad river had suddenly become a resounding cascade; this psalms is the final cataract. The Psalmist will have everything pressed into the choir. He will not have a small band. He ranges creation through, and brings everybody and everything into the orchestra.” (Joseph Parker)
I believe that this is a celebration of the eternal jubilee. “The Jubilee— ‘Thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years...’ (Leviticus 25:8-23)This most extraordinary of all civil institutions, which received the name of ‘Jubilee’ from a Hebrew word signifying a musical instrument, a horn or trumpet, began on the tenth day of the seventh month, or the great day of atonement, when, by order of the public authorities, the sound of trumpets proclaimed the beginning of the universal redemption. All prisoners and captives obtained their liberties, slaves were declared free, and debtors were absolved. The land, as on the sabbatic year, was neither sowed nor reaped, but allowed to enjoy with its inhabitants a sabbath of repose; and its natural produce was the common property of all. Moreover, every inheritance throughout the land of Judea was restored to its original owner.” (Jamieson, Faussett, Brown)
“‘Praise God in His Sanctuary,’ in the places set aside for His worship here on earth.” (Paul E Kretzmann) “‘In His Sanctuary- where two or three are gathered in His name. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and the eastern versions, render it, ‘in His holy ones’; among His saints, in the assembly of them, where He is to be feared and praised: it may be translated, ‘in His Holy One’, and be understood of Christ... Some render it, ‘for’ or ‘because of His holiness.’” (John Gill) But the earthly was but a type of that exists in Heaven.— “‘Praise Him in the firmament of His power,’ which was considered the foundation of the heavens. Earthly and heavenly places of dwelling and worship are mentioned together to indicate the universal extent of God's worship.” (Paul E. Kretzmann)
God told Moses: “‘And see to it that you make it according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.” (Exodus 25:40: Hebrews 8:5)— Because of it's "religious instruction and benefit of mankind, by shadowing forth in its leading features the grand truths of the Christian Church.” (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown) “The pattern — somewhat like the strokes penciled out upon a piece of fine linen, which exhibit the figures of leaves and flowers, but have not yet received their splendid colors and curious shades. And shadow - Or shadowy representation, which gives you some dim and imperfect idea of the body, but not the fine features, not the distinguishing air; none of those living graces which adorn the real person. Yet both the pattern and shadow lead our minds to something nobler than themselves: the pattern, to that holiness and glory which complete it; the shadow, to that which occasions it.” (John Wesley)
“‘Praise Him for His mighty acts;’ i.e His mighty deeds’ might be rendered ‘His valiant acts.’ The reference is to His deliverance of His people as a signal manifestation of prowess or conquering might.” (A. Maclaren)— “as is largely expressed in Moses' praise for the particular mercy of coming safe through the Red Sea (Exo 15:1-27); and Deborah's high praise for deliverance from the host of Sisera (Jdg 5:1-31); where the chiefest and highest part of the celebration and exaltation of God in his praise consists in the declaration and commemoration of the particulars of God's special goodness in their present deliverance.” (Samuel Fairclough)
“‘Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.”—“Behold, the nations are (to Him but) as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. All nations before Him are as nothing; and they are counted to Him less than nothing, and vanity." (Isaiah 40:15)
“‘Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet;’ (3a)— the curved horn or “‘Shophar,’ which is blown by the priests and makes the loudest and most distinct note, used to rally Israel to gather. “The sound of trumpet is associated with the grandest and most solemn events, such as the giving of the law, the proclamation of jubilee, the coronation of Jewish kings, and the raging of war. It is to be thought of in reference to the coming of our Lord in his second advent and the raising of the dead. If we cannot give voice to this martial instrument, at least let our praise be as decided and bold as if we could give a blast upon the horn..” (C. H. Spurgeon)
“Praise Him with the lute and harp! Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes! Praise Him with loud cymbals; praise Him with clashing cymbals!” (3b-5) “The point is actually that everything you have can be used to worship God.” (Boice)
”The breath is employed in blowing the trumpet; the fingers are used in striking the strings of the psaltery and the harp; the whole hand is exerted in beating the timbrel; the feet move in the dance; there are stringed instruments; there is the organ (the ugab, syrinx) composed of many pipes, imposing combination, and the cymbals clang upon one another.” (Christopher Wordsworth) Moreover: “The broad list of musical instruments tells us that God wants every class and group of people to praise Him, because these instruments were normally played by different types of people. The horn was the curved ‘Shophar,’ blown by the priests; harp and psaltery were played by the Levites, timbrels were struck by women; and dancing, playing on stringed instruments and pipes and cymbals, were not reserved for the Levites.” (A. Maclaren)
The creation has been redeemed. “‘Let everything that has breath— literally, the whole of breath— ‘praise Yah.’— Cp. Revelation 5:13, “And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, ‘Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.’”