Old Testament Commentary - Psalms 150

by Don R. Hender

Scriptural Text [& Editorial]	Commentary & Explanation	Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
CHAPTER 150 Praise God in his sanctuary—Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.	Man is to Praise God in his holy places—All living creatures, including man, are to praise the Lord.	*Paise Him in Song, in Testimony and in Prayer*
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his ^asanctuary: praise him in the firmament^a of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. His Mighty Acts In order to praise God for His 'mighty acts', one must come to know and understand just what those acts are and who God is. In such praising of God, one must consider that the praise is unto the works of God as confined to the Godhead, that is Father, Son and Holy Ghost, as they act in concert and as one in their design and purpose. With this in mind and without attempting to deliniate these acts in particular to whom, let just a general representative list surfice. ~ God is the Father of all Mankind ~ He is the Surpreme Being Who Governs all things ~ He is the author of the Grand Plan of Salvation and Exaltation ~ He so loved the world that He gave his firstborn and only begotten son ~ He is the creator of heaven and earth ~ He created man in his own image as we are his children ~ He is the one and only true God of Heaven and Earth ~ He is the God of the Old Testament ~ He is in all things ~ He is all powerful, all knowing and his presence and influence is felt through out the universe ~ He is the Savior and Redeemer of the earth ~ He took upon Himself the sins of the world ~ He effected the ressurrection enabling all to be ressurected and live again eternaly in immortality ~ His kingdom shall roll forth and fill the whole earth ~ He shall come again at His Second Coming ~ He shall reign forevermore ~ There is no end to his kingdoms and glory	1^a in the firmament The firmament is another name for heaven of the heavens. It is a simple concept kept at the simplist level, that God dwells in heaven and man on earth. It does not concern itself with where or exactly what heaven is like, just that where God dwells is in the outer cosmos somewhere and man is confined to this planetary confine known as earth.	1^a Alma 15:17; TG Sanctuary His Excellent Greatness God is Supreme and is the model of Perfection. His Attributes of Godliness are countless but they include:
3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and ^aorgans. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.		4^a HEB pipes, flutes
6 Let ^aevery thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.		6^a Luke 19:40