One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
David composes this entire psalm as one continuous celebration of God's perfections and works. His theme is God's excellent wisdom, goodness, and righteousness shown both in governing the world and in His particular care for His people. Each verse unfolds what makes Him worthy of endless praise.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 145:1-21
One generation shall praise thy works to another. There shall be a tradition of praise: melt shall hand on the service, they shall make it a point to instruct their descendants in this hallowed exercise. We look back upon the experience of our fathers, and sing of it; even thus shall our sons learn praise from the Lord's works among ourselves.
The entitling of this David's psalm of praise may intimate not only that he was the penman of it, but that he took a particular pleasure in it and sung it often; it was his companion wherever he went. In this former part of the psalm God's glorious attributes are praised, as, in the latter part of the psalm, his kingdom and the administration of it. Observe, I.
Commenting on Psalm 145:1-9