Psalms 148:5

Let them praise the name of the Lord,.... Set forth the glory of the nature and perfections of God, and celebrate the praise of them; even all celestial creatures, the angels, the hosts of heaven, the…

Let them praise the name of the Lord - That is, Let them praise Yahweh himself - the name being often put for the person or thing referred to. For he commanded, and they were created - He showed his…

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…

for HE commanded HEis emphatically expressed. Cp. Psa 33:9, whence also comes the addition of the LXX, which is retained in P.B.V., HE spake the word, and they were made.