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Adam Clarke · 1831
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Adam Clarke · 1831
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Psalms Chapter 147 서론 Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Psalms Chapter 147 1 Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Praise is comely - It is decent, befitting, and proper that every intelligent creature should acknowledge the Supreme Being: and as he does nothing but good to the children of men, so they should speak good of his name.
Psalms Chapter 147 2 Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The Lord doth build up - The psalmist appears to see the walls rising under his eye, because the outcasts of Israel, those who had been in captivity, are now gathered together to do the work.
Psalms Chapter 147 3 Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He healeth the broken in heart - שבורי, the shivered in heart. From the root שבר shabar, to break in pieces, we have our word shiver, to break into splinters, into shivers. The heart broken in pieces by a sense of God's displeasure.
Psalms Chapter 147 4 Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He telleth the number of the stars - He whose knowledge is so exact as to tell every star in heaven, can be under no difficulty to find out and collect all the scattered exiles of Israel.
Psalms Chapter 147 5 Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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.
Psalms Chapter 147 6 Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The Lord lifteth up the meek - The humbled, the afflicted.
Psalms Chapter 147 7 Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Sing unto the Lord - ענו enu, sing a responsive song, sing in parts, answer one another.
The psalmist praises God for his goodness to Jerusalem, Psalm 147:1-3; shows his great mercy to them that trust in him, Psalm 147:4-6; he extols him for his mercies, and providential kindness, Psalm 147:7-11; for his defense of Jerusalem, Psalm 147:12-15; For his wonders in the seasons, Psalm 147:16-18; and his word unto Jacob, Psalm 147:19, Psalm 147:20.
This Psalm, which is without title in the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Vulgate, is attributed by the other Versions to Haggai and Zechariah. It was probably penned after the captivity, when the Jews were busily employed in rebuilding Jerusalem, as may be gathered from the second and thirteenth verses. It may be necessary to remark that all the Versions, except the Chaldee, divide this Psalm at the end of the eleventh verse, and begin a new Psalm at the twelfth. By this division the numbers of the Psalms agree in the Versions with the Hebrew; the former having been, till now, one behind.