13 Let them give glory to the name of the Lord: for his name only is to be praised: his kingdom is over the earth and the heaven.
The Lord is high over all nations, and his glory is higher than the heavens.
<To the chief music-maker on the Gittith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!
And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.
Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.
He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)
And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.
The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.
Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all.
What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?
For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.
Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared; holy is he. The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.
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Commentary on Psalms 148 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 148
This psalm is a most solemn and earnest call to all the creatures, according to their capacity, to praise their Creator, and to show forth his eternal power and Godhead, the invisible things of which are manifested in the things that are seen. Thereby the psalmist designs to express his great affection to the duty of praise; he is highly satisfied that God is praised, is very desirous that he may be more praised, and therefore does all he can to engage all about him in this pleasant work, yea, and all who shall come after him, whose hearts must be very dead and cold if they be not raised and enlarged, in praising God, by the lofty flights of divine poetry which we find in this psalm.
Psa 148:1-6
We, in this dark and depressed world, know but little of the world of light and exaltation, and, conversing within narrow confines, can scarcely admit any tolerable conceptions of the vast regions above. But this we know,
Psa 148:7-14
Considering that this earth, and the atmosphere that surrounds it, are the very sediment of the universe, it concerns us to enquire after those considerations that may be of use to reconcile us to our place in it; and I know none more likely than this (next to the visit which the Son of God once made to it), that even in this world, dark and as bad as it is, God is praised: Praise you the Lord from the earth, v. 7. As the rays of the sun, which are darted directly from heaven, reflect back (though more weakly) from the earth, so should the praises of God, with which this cold and infected world should be warmed and perfumed.