Psalms 113

Psalms 113:1

PRaise ye the Lord] Heb. Hallelujah.

praise the Name of the Lord] By this often repetition he stirreth up our cold dulnesse to praise God, seeing his works are so wonderfull.

Psalms 113:2

Blessed be the Name of the Lord] Daniel 2:20.

Psalms 113:3

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same] Malachi 1:11. Isaiah 59:19.

Psalms 113:4

The Lord is high above all nations] If Gods glory shine thorow all the world, and therfore he ought to be praised of all men, What great condemnation were it to his people, among whom chiefly it shineth, if they should not earnestly extoll his Name?

his glory above the heavens] Psalms 8:1.

Psalms 113:5

Who is like unto the Lord our God] Psalms 89:6.

dwelleth] Heb. exalteth himself to dwell.

Psalms 113:6

Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven] God, out of his high seat of glory, vouchsafeth to provide for all creatures heavenly and earthly, psal. 138. 6.

Psalms 113:7

He raiseth up the poor out of the dst] 1 Samuel 2:8. Psalms 107:41.

and lifteth the needie ut of the dungill] He preserring the poor to high honour, and giving the barren children, sheweth, that God worketh in his Church not onely by ordinary means, but also by extraordinary.

Psalms 113:9

to keep house] Heb. to dwell in an house.