
Text -- Psalms 147:5 (NET)




Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics



collapse allCommentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)
JFB -> Psa 147:4-5; Psa 147:4-5
JFB: Psa 147:4-5 - -- God's power in nature (Isa 40:26-28, and often) is presented as a pledge of His power to help His people.
God's power in nature (Isa 40:26-28, and often) is presented as a pledge of His power to help His people.
Clarke -> Psa 147:5
Clarke: Psa 147:5 - -- His understanding is infinite - To his intelligence there is no number: though he numbers the stars, his understanding is without number. It is infi...
His understanding is infinite - To his intelligence there is no number: though he numbers the stars, his understanding is without number. It is infinite; therefore, he can know, as he can do, all things.
God is omnipotent as well as omnipresent.
TSK -> Psa 147:5
TSK: Psa 147:5 - -- Great : Psa 48:1, Psa 96:4, Psa 99:2, Psa 135:5, Psa 145:3; 1Ch 16:25; Jer 10:6, Jer 32:17-19; Nah 1:3; Rev 15:3
his understanding is infinite : Heb. ...
Great : Psa 48:1, Psa 96:4, Psa 99:2, Psa 135:5, Psa 145:3; 1Ch 16:25; Jer 10:6, Jer 32:17-19; Nah 1:3; Rev 15:3
his understanding is infinite : Heb. of his understanding there is no number, Psa 40:5, Psa 139:17, Psa 139:18; Isa 40:28; Rom 11:33

collapse allCommentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)
Barnes -> Psa 147:5
Barnes: Psa 147:5 - -- Great is our Lord - See the notes at Psa 48:1. And of great power - This seems to be added, as in Isa 40:28, in view of the power require...
Great is our Lord - See the notes at Psa 48:1.
And of great power - This seems to be added, as in Isa 40:28, in view of the power required in making the heavens, and in guiding and numbering the stars: "Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?"
His understanding is infinite - Margin, Of his understanding there is no number. That is, This corresponds with his power to number the stars. There is no limit to it. It is not bounded; there is no point reached where it can be said that there is no more; that it is exhausted. See the notes at Isa 40:28 : "There is no searching of his understanding."
Haydock -> Psa 147:5
Haydock: Psa 147:5 - -- or Hebrew Psalm cxlvii. Ver. 16. Like wool. Because it is white, and light, and covereth the earth as a fleece, which keeps it warm, and makes ...
or Hebrew Psalm cxlvii. Ver. 16. Like wool. Because it is white, and light, and covereth the earth as a fleece, which keeps it warm, and makes it fruitful. On which account also, in the following words, mists (or as it is in the Hebrew, hoar frosts ) are compared to ashes, which give a fruitfulness to the ground. (Challoner) ---
Trees and fruits are preserved by the snow resting upon them. Vota arborum frugumque....nives....insidere. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xvii. 2.) ---
Mists are succeeded by clear weather. By penance and austerity sins are remitted, and devils expelled, Isaias i. 18. (Worthington)
Gill -> Psa 147:5
Gill: Psa 147:5 - -- Great is our Lord, and of great power,.... "Our Lord" is our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of the whole earth; the Lord of his own people by creation, ...
Great is our Lord, and of great power,.... "Our Lord" is our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of the whole earth; the Lord of his own people by creation, by redemption, by marriage, and by the conquest of his grace, and their voluntary submission to him; he is "great" in his person, offices, and grace, and therefore greatly to be praised; see Psa 145:3; and particularly his "power" is very "great", as appears in the creation of all things out of nothing by him; in the sustaining and support of the world and all things in it: in the redemption of his people from the hand of their powerful enemies; in beginning, carrying on, and perfecting a work of grace on their hearts by his Spirit and power; and in the preservation of them unto eternal life, through a thousand dangers and difficulties: at his resurrection all power in heaven and earth were given him as Mediator; and in the latter day he will take to himself his great power and reign; and in the last day will raise the dead out of their graves;
his understanding is infinite; it reaches to all things, not to the stars of heaven only, as in Psa 147:4, but to the fowls of the air, to the beasts of the field, and cattle upon a thousand hills; to all on the surface of the earth, or in the bowels of it; and to the fishes of the sea: it reaches to all men, and to all the thoughts of their hearts, the words of their mouths, and the actions of their lives; it reaches to all things past, that have been, to everything present, and to whatsoever is to come; it includes not only the knowledge of all things that are, or certainly will be, but of all things possible, or which he could bring into being if he would; it is concerned not only with the quality and nature of things it perfectly understands, but with the quantity of them; even all things in creation and providence, which are without number and past finding out by men; and so his understanding is without number, and cannot be declared, as the word signifies.

expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

expand allCommentary -- Verse Range Notes
TSK Synopsis -> Psa 147:1-20
TSK Synopsis: Psa 147:1-20 - --1 The prophet exhorts to praise God for his care of the church;4 his power and wisdom;6 his mercy;7 his providence;12 to praise him for his blessings ...
MHCC -> Psa 147:1-11
MHCC: Psa 147:1-11 - --Praising God is work that is its own wages. It is comely; it becomes us as reasonable creatures, much more as people in covenant with God. He gathers ...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 147:1-11
Matthew Henry: Psa 147:1-11 - -- Here, I. The duty of praise is recommended to us. It is not without reason that we are thus called to it again and again: Praise you the Lord (Psa...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 147:1-6
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 147:1-6 - --
The Hallelujah, as in Psa 135:3, is based upon the fact, that to sing of our God, or to celebrate our God in song ( זמּר with an accusative of t...
Constable: Psa 107:1--150:6 - --V. Book 5: chs. 107--150
There are 44 psalms in this section of the Psalter. David composed 15 of these (108-110...

Constable: Psa 147:1-20 - --Psalm 147
God's greatness and His grace are also the theme of this psalm. However in this one an unnamed...
