the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.
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.
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Commenting on Psalm 145:1-21
I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty. 'Tis fit a king should speak of the majesty of the King of kings. David cannot give over the worship of God into the hands of others, even though all generations should undertake to perpetuate it: he must have his own individual share in it, and so he saith, "I will speak." What a speaker!
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