Comentary for Ps 145

The Story of Psalm 145
We do not know when David wrote this psalm. Some Bible students think that Nehemiah wrote it 500 years after David died, using David’s notes. It is an acrostic. They help in this special use of words that we call "poetry". What is acrostic? The peotry was written with each verse beginning with the Hebrew alphabet.

Study: (Something God wants to speak to me and something about God that I want to know more)
v1: I will extol you, my God and King,and bless your name forever and ever.

When : v2 everyday
Why: v3 His greatness
How: v4-6. Commend, mediate, speak and sing
(if you experience God and know and see His greatness, would not you be doing what v4-6 said and doing it everyday?)

What is this greatness?v8-9
v8 The Lord is gracious and merciful,slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
v9 The Lord is good to all,and his mercy is over all that he has made.

v14-20 speaks about His grace, mercy, about His slow to anger, steadfast love, His goodness (come to that later)

Know that - from the so? to the wow!
v10-13 Give thanks! Praise Him! Give Him the glory!

Our God is not about just saying, it is about His promise and His acts.
v14 The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.
If the Lord just upholds and that's it, then it is not complete. And if He upholds all, then it is not complete. He upholds all who are falling. Basically, to all who runs to Him and need Him. The proud would not. But to those who run to Him, He rasises up all. And the key again is all who are bowed down.

v14 alones speaks about the nature of my God. His grace and His mercy. And it also speaks about His dislike for the proud and wicked. Refer back to v8 and v9 about His greatness.

For v15-v20, same pattern. Come with the right heart and the Lord my God will surely deliver. And also in these verses, look for the nature of God - His grace, His mercy, His love, His righteousness.

Lastly, SO NOW I KNOW, this is my wow - 21 My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.


If Psalm 145 were to be written in English it may look like this below:

v1 Always I will *praise you, my God and my king, and I will *bless your name!
v2 "*Bless you" I will say every day and I will always *praise your name.
v3 Clearly the *LORD is great and we can never *praise him enough. We will never know how great he really is!
v4 Down from father to son people will say what *wonderful things you have done. They will tell each other how powerful you are.
v5 Everyone is talking about your *glory and your *beauty. I will keep thinking about the *wonderful things that you do.
v6 Famous are the things that you have done. People talk about them. I also will say what great things you do.
v7 Good things are what everybody remembers about you. They all sing about how kind you are.
v8 How full of *grace and *mercy is the *LORD. He is slow to become angry and is full of kind love.
v9 It is the *LORD that is kind to everybody. He shows his *mercy to everything that he has made.
v10 Joining together, everything that you have made will *praise you, *LORD. Your *saints will *bless you!
v11 "*Kingdom of *Glory" is where you rule. People talk about it and about how powerful you are.
v12 Let everybody know the powerful things that you have done; and the *glory and *beauty of your *kingdom.
v13 Many years, even for always, will your *kingdom remain. You will always rule over it.
Now the *LORD will do as he has promised. All that he does shows his *mercy.
v14 Out of trouble the *LORD will bring everybody. He will give help to everyone that has fallen down.
v15 People and other living things look to you. You give them food when they need it.
v16 Really, you open your hand. And you give every living thing what it wants.
v17 So the *LORD is fair in all his ways. Everything that he does shows us his *mercy.
v18 The *LORD is near to all that pray to him. He is near to all that are honest when they pray to him.
v19 Very soon he will give what they need to those that love him. He will hear what they say and save them.
v20 *Wicked people will the *LORD destroy. But he will save the people that love him.
v21 You will hear me speak the *praises of the *LORD. All that he has made will *bless his *holy name.