Psalm 145
BSB
I Will Exalt You, My God and King
A Psalm of praise. Of David.
1I will exalt You, my God and King;
I will bless Your name forever and ever.
2Every day I will bless You,
and I will praise Your name forever and ever.
3Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised;
His greatness is unsearchable.
4One generation will commend Your works to the next,
and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
5the glorious splendor of Your majesty.
And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.
6They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds,
and I will declare Your greatness.
7They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness
and sing joyfully of Your righteousness.
8The LORD is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
9The LORD is good to all;
His compassion rests on all He has made.
10All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD,
and Your saints will bless You.
11They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom
and speak of Your might,
12to make known to men Your mighty acts
and the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.
13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and Your dominion endures through all generations.
The LORD is faithful in all His words
and kind in all His actions.
14The LORD upholds all who fall
and lifts up all who are bowed down.
15The eyes of all look to You,
and You give them their food in season.
16You open Your hand
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17The LORD is righteous in all His ways
and kind in all His deeds.
18The LORD is near to all who call on Him,
to all who call out to Him in truth.
19He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him;
He hears their cry and saves them.
20The LORD preserves all who love Him,
but all the wicked He will destroy.
21My mouth will declare the praise of the LORD;
let every creature bless His holy name
forever and ever.
Introduction
Psalms 145
The five foregoing psalms were all of a piece, all full of prayers; this, and the five that follow it to the end of the book, are all of a piece too, all full of praises; and though only this is entitled David's psalm yet we have no reason to think but that they were all his as well as all the foregoing prayers. And it is observable, 1. That after five psalms of prayer follow six psalms of praise; for those that are much in prayer shall not want matter for praise, and those that have sped in prayer must abound in praise. Our thanksgivings for mercy, when we have received it, should even exceed our supplications for it when we were in pursuit of it. David, in the last of his begging psalms, had promised to praise God (Psa 145:9), and here he performs his promise. 2. That the book of Psalms concludes with psalms of praise, all praise, for praise, is the conclusion of the whole matter; it is that in which all the psalms centre. And it intimates that God's people, towards the end of their life, should abound much in praise, and the rather because, at the end of their life, they hope to remove to the world of everlasting praise, and the nearer they come to heaven the more they should accustom themselves to the work of heaven. This is one of those psalms which are composed alphabetically (as Ps. 25 and Ps. 34, etc.), that it might be the more easily committed to memory, and kept in mind. The Jewish writers justly extol this psalm as a star of the first magnitude in this bright constellation; and some of them have an extravagant saying concerning it, not much unlike some of the popish superstitions, That whosoever will sing this psalm constantly three times a day shall certainly be happy in the world to come. In this psalm, I. David engages himself and others to praise God (Psa 145:1, Psa 145:2, Psa 145:4-7, Psa 145:10-12). II. He fastens upon those things that are proper matter for praise, God's greatness (v . 3), his goodness (Psa 145:8, Psa 145:9), the proofs of both in the administration of his kingdom (Psa 145:13), the kingdom of providence (Psa 145:14-16), the kingdom of grace (Psa 145:17-20), and then he concludes with a resolution to continue praising God (Psa 145:21) with which resolution our hearts must be filled, and in which they must be fixed, in singing this psalm.
David's psalm of praise.
Cross-references: Ps 145:9 · Ps 145:1 · Ps 145:2 · Ps 145:4 · Ps 145:10 · Ps 145:8 · Ps 145:13 · Ps 145:14 · Ps 145:17 · Ps 145:21