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Psalm 145 Majority Standard Bible

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Notes on this text (1)

1 A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable. 4 One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts— 5 the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works. 6 They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness. 7 They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of Your righteousness. 8 The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion. 9 The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made. 10 All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD, and Your saints will bless You. 11 They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of Your might, 12 to make known to men Your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of Your kingdom. 13 Your 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. 14 The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down. 15 The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season. 16 You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. 17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds. 18 The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth. 19 He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them. 20 The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy. 21 My mouth will declare the praise of the LORD; let every creature bless His holy name forever and ever.

Cross references (21)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 47:6–8; Psalm 45:6; Psalm 34:1; Matthew 25:34; Psalm 30:12
  2. 2 Revelation 7:15; Psalm 71:6; Psalm 119:164; Psalm 72:15
  3. 3 Psalm 147:5; Romans 11:33; Job 5:9; Isaiah 40:28; Job 9:10
  4. 4 Psalm 71:18; Psalm 78:3–7; Isaiah 38:19; Deuteronomy 6:7; Joshua 4:21–24
  5. 5 Isaiah 12:4; Psalm 119:27; Psalm 72:18; Psalm 71:24; Daniel 4:37
  6. 6 Habakkuk 2:14; Daniel 3:28–29; Psalm 107:31–32; Psalm 22:31; Psalm 22:27
  7. 7 Isaiah 63:7; Psalm 36:10; Psalm 71:15–16; Psalm 51:14; 2 Corinthians 9:11–12
  8. 8 Numbers 14:18; Psalm 103:8; Psalm 86:5; Psalm 100:5; Psalm 116:5
  9. 9 Nahum 1:7; Psalm 100:5; Matthew 5:45; Jonah 4:11; Psalm 104:27
  10. 10 Psalm 19:1; Psalm 103:22; 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 7:9–12; Psalm 148:1–14
  11. 11 Isaiah 9:6–7; Psalm 45:6–7; Psalm 93:1–2; 1 Chronicles 29:11–12; Revelation 11:15–17
  12. 12 Revelation 12:10; Psalm 105:1; Psalm 105:5; Psalm 98:1; Matthew 28:18
  13. 13 1 Timothy 1:17; Daniel 7:14; Isaiah 9:7; Revelation 11:15; Psalm 10:16
  14. 14 Psalm 146:8; Psalm 37:24; Psalm 94:18; Psalm 119:117; Luke 22:31–32
  15. 15 Psalm 136:25; Psalm 104:27; Acts 17:25; Matthew 6:26; Psalm 147:8–9
  16. 16 Psalm 104:28; Psalm 107:9; Psalm 132:15; Job 38:27
  17. 17 Deuteronomy 32:4; Zephaniah 3:5; Psalm 103:6; Psalm 116:5; Isaiah 45:21
  18. 18 Jeremiah 29:12–13; Psalm 34:18; Deuteronomy 4:7; John 4:24; Isaiah 58:9
  19. 19 Psalm 37:4; Ephesians 3:16–20; John 15:7; Matthew 5:6; 1 John 5:15
  20. 20 Exodus 20:6; John 10:27–29; Romans 8:28–30; Psalm 97:10; Psalm 31:23
  21. 21 Psalm 71:8; Psalm 51:15; Psalm 150:6; Psalm 71:23–24; Revelation 5:11–14

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXLIV)

    The title of this Psalm is brief in number of words, but heavy in the weight of its mysteries. "To David himself against Goliath." This battle was fought in the time of our fathers, and ye, beloved, remember it with me from Holy Scripture....David put five stones in his scrip, he hurled but one.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 145:3 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book I)

    Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and of Thy wisdom there is no end. And man, being a part of Thy creation, desires to praise Thee, man, who bears about with him his mortality, the witness of his sin, even the witness that Thou "resistest the proud," --yet man, this part of …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 145:16 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXI)

    Of this lesson David also lays the foundation from old time, saying enigmatically on this wise, "Thou openest Thine hand, and fillest every living thing with bounty;" and again, "To Him that giveth to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that call upon Him." "Who then," it may be said, "have not taken thought"?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 145:15 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapter V)

    Wherefore to Him all things are turned, looking with irresistible longing and unspeakable affection to "the author" and maintainer "of" their "life," as it is written "The eyes of all wait upon thee," and again, "These wait all upon thee," and "Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing."

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)

  5. Quotes verse 145:15 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book VI, Chapters X–XI)

    So were there three begging mouths, sighing out their wants one to the other, and waiting upon Thee, that Thou mightest give them their meat in due season. And in all the bitterness which by Thy mercy followed our worldly pursuits, as we contemplated the end, why this suffering should be ours, darkness came upon us; and we turned away …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)