Psalms 148:9-14

9 Do the same, you mountains, every single hill, fruit trees, and every single cedar!
10 Do the same, you animals—wild or tame— you creatures that creep along and you birds that fly!
11 Do the same, you kings of the earth and every single person, you princes and every single ruler on earth!
12 Do the same, you young men—young women too!— you who are old together with you who are young!
13 Let all of these praise the LORD's name because only God's name is high over all. Only God's majesty is over earth and heaven.
14 God raised the strength of his people, the praise of all his faithful ones— that's the Israelites, the people who are close to him. Praise the LORD!

Psalms 148:9-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 148

This psalm seems to have been written about the same time, and by the same person, as the preceding; even by the psalmist David, when he was in profound peace, and at rest from all his enemies; and the kingdom of Israel was in a well settled and prosperous condition, both with respect to things civil and ecclesiastical, as appears from Ps 148:14. And as it may respect future time, the times of the Messiah, of whom David was a type, it will have its accomplishment in the latter day, when there will be just occasion for all creatures, in heaven and earth, to praise the Lord; and which the Evangelist John, in vision, saw and heard them doing, Re 5:11-13. Aben Ezra says, this psalm is exceeding glorious and excellent, and has deep secrets in it; in which the psalmist speaks of two worlds, the upper and the lower. As for the title of this psalm, the Septuagint, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, and Apollinarius, entitle it as the two preceding.

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