Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps,
God's power, goodness, and wisdom are written everywhere, so His praises ought to resound from every corner of creation. Angels and stars, dumb elements and brute beasts, all declare Him. Yet most men are both blind to His works and silent in His praise; only Israel, given His special revelation, can truly speak for the world.
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Commenting on Psalm 148:1-14
Praise the Lord from the earth. The song descends to our abode, and so comes nearer home to us. We who are "bodies terrestrial", are to pour out our portion of praise from the golden globe of this favoured planet. Jehovah is to be praised not only in the earth but from the earth, as if the adoration ran over from this planet into the general accumulation of worship.
The earth itself, dark and infected as it is, becomes a mirror of heaven's praise. As sunlight bounces weakly back from the ground, so God's glory reflects from this lower world, through whales that sport in the depths, through meteors that blaze and crash, through hail and snow and wind. All the depths declare Him.
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Commenting on Psalm 148:7-14