The Bible: Psalms Chapter 113: with Audio and Commentary.

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Psalms Chapter 113

1 Praise the LORD! Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the LORD's name.

2 Blessed be the LORD's name, from this time forward and forever more.

3 From the rising of the sun to its going down, the LORD's name is to be praised.

4 The LORD is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

5 Who is like the LORD, our God, who has his seat on high,

6 Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

7 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

8 that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

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Psalms Chapter 113 Guide

This is the first of six psalms which constitute the Hallel or Hymn of Praise, which the Hebrews sang at Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. This group is necessarily of special interest to us because in all probability, these psalms were sung by our Lord and His disciples on that dark night in which He was betrayed. While we shall read them and think of them as the songs of the ancient people, we cannot help thinking of them as uttered by that Voice which was and is the perfect music.

The first psalm celebrates the name of Jehovah on two accounts. He is high, yet He is lowly; above the nations and above the heavens, ye t humbling Himself to behold the heavens and the earth. This is a startling way of stating the fact. The thing which exalts man, the contemplation and consideration of the creation and its glories, humbles God, so far is He above creation in the awful majesty of His essential life. Yet how He humbles Himself! Think of these words passing the lips of Him Who "humbled Himself," and became "obedient unto death." Then notice the evidences of God’s humility and height. He stoops to lift, for He raiseth the poor, lifteth up the needy, and turns barreness into the joy of motherhood. Again, think how amid the deepening shadows the Incarnate Word sang with a little band of men of the purpose of His humbling, and try and imagine the joy set before Him, and so approach to an understanding of how He endured.

From "An Exposition of the Whole Bible" by G. Campbell Morgan.

Psalms Chapter 113 Commentary

Chapter Outline

  1. An exhortation to praise God.

Verses 1-9

God has praise from his own people. They have most reason to praise him; for those who attend him as his servants, know him best, and receive most of his favours, and it is easy, pleasant work to speak well of their Master. God's name ought to be praised in every place, from east to west. Within this wide space the Lord's name is to be praised; it ought to be so, though it is not. Ere long it will be, when all nations shall come and worship before him. God is exalted above all blessing and praise. We must therefore say, with holy admiration, Who is like unto the Lord our God? How condescending in him to behold the things in the earth! And what amazing condescension was it for the Son of God to come from heaven to earth, and take our nature upon him, that he might seek and save those that were lost! How vast his love in taking upon him the nature of man, to ransom guilty souls! God sometimes makes glorious his own wisdom and power, when, having some great work to do, he employs those least likely, and least thought of for it by themselves or others. The apostles were sent from fishing to be fishers of men. And this is God's constant method in his kingdom of grace. He takes men, by nature beggars, and even traitors, to be his favourites, his children, kings and priests unto him; and numbers them with the princes of his chosen people. He gives us all our comforts, which are generally the more welcome when long delayed, and no longer expected. Let us pray that those lands which are yet barren, may speedily become fruitful, and produce many converts to join in praising the Lord.

From the "Concise Commentary on the Bible" by Matthew Henry.