Let Everything Praise the LORD – Psalm 150

August 28, 2019 (Wednesday)

(From the Cambridge Bible Commentary):“The Book of Praises(Psalms 146-150) fitly ends with this full-toned call to universal praise with every accompaniment of jubilant rejoicing. It may have been composed as a closing doxology for the whole Psalter, corresponding to the doxologies at the end of the first four books; but it would seem rather to have been intended primarily, like the other Psalms of this group, for use in worship, and to have been placed at the end of the Book of Psalms on account of its inherent fitness.
“This noble close of the Psalter rings out one clear note of praise, as the end of all the many moods and experiences recorded in its wonderful sighs and songs. Tears, groans, wailings for sin, meditations on the dark depths of Providence, fainting faith and foiled aspirations, all lead up to this. The Psalm is more than an artistic close of the Psalter; it is a prophecy of the last result of the devout life, and in its unclouded sunniness as well as in its universality, it proclaims the certain end of the weary years for the individual and the world. ‘Everything that hath breath’ shall yet praise Jehovah” (Maclaren).
(From the Easy English Bible):“After 70 years in forced exile, the Jews went back to their own land. They built Jerusalem and the temple again. Then the Jews made the Book of Psalms. It was to sing in the new temple. They used psalms by Moses, by David, by Isaiah, by the sons of Korah and by many other people. But Bible students think that they wrote two new psalms for their book. They were Psalm 1 and Psalm 150. Maybe they wrote other psalms also, perhaps Psalms 146 – 149.”
(From Charles Haddon Spurgeon):“We have now reached the last summit of the mountain chain of Psalms. It rises high into the clear azure, and its brow is bathed in the sunlight of the eternal world of worship, it is a rapture. The poet prophet is full of inspiration and enthusiasm. He slays not to argue, to teach, to explain; but cries with burning words, ‘Praise him, Praise him, Praise ye the LORD.'”

This concludes our study of the Book of Psalms, which we began on June 22, 2016. The blog each Wednesday became our study guide for the Psalms, which we studied each Wednesday evening at Bethel Baptist Church, Ingleside, Texas.