Psalms 149:2

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him,.... Or, "in his Makers" (i), Father, Son, and Spirit; as in Job 35:10; see also Ecc 12:1; for all three Persons had a concern in the creation of man at first,…

Let Israel - The people of Israel; the Hebrew people; the people of God. Rejoice in him that made him - Him, who has made the people what they are. All that they have and are is to be traced to him,…

We have here,

I. The calls given to God's Israel to praise. All his works were, in the foregoing psalm, excited to praise him; but here his saints in a particular manner are required to bless him.…

Jehovah is Israel's Maker (Psa 95:6; Psa 100:3; Isa 44:2; Isa 51:13), for to Him it owes its original existence as a nation, and the present restoration of its national life; now that it has no…