Chapter 117

The shortest psalm: O praise the LORD, all ye nations, because his merciful kindness is great toward us and his truth endures forever.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

This psalm is short and sweet; I doubt the reason why we sing it so often as we do is for the shortness of it; but, if we rightly understood and considered it, we should sing it oftener for the sweetness of it, especially to us sinners of the Gentiles, on whom it casts a very favourable eye. Here is, I. A solemn call to all nations to praise God, Ps. 117:1. II. Proper matter for that praise sugges…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Psa 117:1, 2. This may be regarded as a doxology, suitable to be appended to any Psalm of similar character, and prophetical of the prevalence of God’s grace in the world, in which aspect Paul quotes it (Ro 15:11; compare Psa 47:2; 66:8). 2. is great toward us--literally, “prevailed over” or “protected us.”