Praise the LORD, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. or Hebrew Psalm 147. Verse 12. Alleluia. This word is not in Hebrew Bible.—Many with the Septuagint add, “of Aggæus and Zacharias.” Calmet.—The psalm has the same object in view as the preceding. Bert.—The Fathers explain it of the Church, and of heaven. Calmet.—Sion. This place was highly favoured before the captivity, and rebuilt afterwards so as to enjoy many blessings. But all this was only a figure of the privileges belong to the Church, and to the heavenly Sion, the true vision of peace. Worthington.—The earthly Jerusalem was too often faithless; (Galatians 4:26. Hebrews 12:22) so that the psalmist cannot have it alone in view. Bert.
Hebrew: יה Yah