Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens.
The Psalm urges us to praise God everywhere: in His sanctuary where His grace concentrates, and in the firmament where His power displays itself. We must observe both the place from which praise arises and the God to whom it ascends.
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Commenting on Psalm 150:1-6
Praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah! The exhortation is to all things in earth or in heaven. Should they not all declare the glory of him for whose glory they are, and were created? Jehovah, the one God, should be the one object of adoration. To give the least particle of his honour to another is shameful treason; to refuse to render it to him is heartless robbery.
We are called with utmost earnestness to praise God, a duty we naturally slack in and grow cold toward; thus Scripture presses it upon us, line upon line. Praise Him in His sanctuary where He reveals His glory and distributes His grace, and in the firmament where His power blazes forth.
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Commenting on Psalm 150:1-6