Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.

PSAL. CXLV.

Davids Psalm of praise.

This Psalm and the rest which follow to the end are wholly laudatory, setting forth the praises of God. The excel∣lency of this Psalm appears not onely from the opinion of the Hebrew Writers, but also from the care which the Psalmist took to digest it into such accurate and Alphabe∣tical order, that it migh•…•… be more easily fixed in the mind and memory of the reader.

1 I Will extol thee my God ‖ 1.1 O King a 1.2, and I will bless thy Name for ever and ever.

2 Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever.

3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be prai∣sed; † 1.3 and * 1.4 his greatness b 1.5 is unsearchable.

4 One generation shall praise thy works to a∣nother c 1.6, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty d 1.7, and of thy wondrous † 1.8 works.

6 And men shall speak of the might of thy ter∣rible acts: and I will † 1.9 declare thy greatness.

7 They shall ‖ 1.10 abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness e 1.11, and shall sing of thy righ∣teousness.

8 * 1.12 The LORD is gracious and full of com∣passion; slow to anger, and † 1.13 of great mercy.

9 The LORD is good to all f 1.14: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

10 All thy works shall praise thee g 1.15, O LORD, and thy saints shall bless thee.

11 They shall speak of the glory of thy king∣dom, and talk of thy power.

12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his king∣dom.

13 Thy kingdom is † 1.16 an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all gene∣rations.

14 The LORD upholdeth all h 1.17 that fall, and * 1.18 raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

15 The eyes of all i 1.19 ‖ 1.20 wait upon thee k 1.21: and * 1.22 thou givest them their meat in due season l 1.23.

16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing m 1.24.

17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and ‖ 1.25 holy n 1.26 in all his works.

18 * 1.27 The LORD is nigh unto all them o 1.28 that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth p 1.29.

19 He will fulfil the desire q 1.30 of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy r 1.31.

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy Name for ever and ever.

Notes

• ‖ 1.1

  Or, the king. Compare Je•…•…. 38. 9.
• a 1.2

  Or, the King, by way of eminency, the King of kings, the God by whom Kings reign, and to whom I and all other Kings owe subjection and obedience.
• † 1.3

  Heb. and of his greatness. there is no search.
• * 1.4

  Job 5. 9. & 9. 10.
• b 1.5

  In his Being, Majesty and Glory, and all Perfections.
• c 1.6

  The people that live in one age shall relate them to their posterity, and so successively in all ages.
• d 1.7

  Here are divers words heaped together to intimate that no words were sufficient to express it.
• † 1.8

  Heb. things, or, words.
• † 1.9

  Heb. declare it.
• ‖ 1.10

  Heb. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• e 1.11

  The memorials of thy kindness to thy people, thy never to be forgotten blessings.
• * 1.12

  Exod. 34 6, 7. Numb. 14. 18. Psal. 86. 5, 15. & 103. 8.
• † 1.13

  Heb. great in mercy.
• f 1.14

  Not to Israel onely, but to all mankind, whose hearts he fills with food and gladness, as it is said Acts 14. 17. yea to all his creatures, as it is in the next clause, to beasts, as well as men. See Psal. 39. 6. and 147. 9.
• g 1.15

  Objectively, they give men and Angels just occasion to praise thee.
• † 1.16

  Heb. a king∣dom of all ages.
• h 1.17

  Either, 1. all that look up to him for help: or, 2. all that are upheld: whose support is not from themselves, nor from other men, but onely from Gods powerful and good providence.
• * 1.18

  Psal. 146. 8.
• i 1.19

  Of all living creatures.
• ‖ 1.20

  Or, look unto thee.
• k 1.21

  Expect and receive their sup∣plies wholly from thy bounty. Expectation is here figura∣tively ascribed to brute creatures, as Psal. 104. 27. Rom. 8. 22.
• * 1.22

  Psal. 136. 25.
• l 1.23

  When they need it.
• m 1.24

  Or, as divers render it, and which is more agreeable to the order of the words in the Hebrew Text, thou satisfiest every living thing with thy favour or good-will, i. e. with the fruits of thy bounty: the Pronoun thy being easily and fitly understood out of the foregoing clause.
• ‖ 1.25

  Or, merciful, or, bountiful.
• n 1.26

  Or rather merciful, as this word most commonly signifies. There is a mixture of mercy in the most severe and terrible works of God in this life, judgment without mercy being re∣served for the next life, Iam. 2. 13. Revel. 14. 10.
• * 1.27

  Deut. 4. 7.
• o 1.28

  To answer their prayers for relief.
• p 1.29

  Sincerely or with an upright heart, trusting to him, and waiting upon him in his way.
• q 1.30

  So far as it is agreeable to his own will, and convenient for their good; not inordinate desires, which God com∣monly denies to his people in mercy, and granteth to his enemies in anger.
• r 1.31

  Frequently in this world, but infallibly in the next.