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2Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
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A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. …
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have here, I. The calls given to God’s Israel to praise. All his works were, in the foregoing psalm, excited to praise him ; but here his saints in a particular manner are required to bless him. Observe then, 1. Who are called upon to praise God. Israel in general, the body of the church (Ps. 149:2), the children of Zion particularly, the inhabitants of that holy hill, who are nearer to God tha…
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