13 He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great.
Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.
<A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.
And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.
And a voice came from the high seat, saying, Give praise to our God, all you his servants, small and great, in whom is the fear of him.
His mercy is for all generations in whom is the fear of him.
See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord. May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name. And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.
My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.
And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about;
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Commentary on Psalms 115 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 115
Many ancient translations join this psalm to that which goes next before it, the Septuagint particularly, and the vulgar Latin; but it is, in the Hebrew, a distinct psalm. In it we are taught to give glory,
Some think this psalm was penned upon occasion of some great distress and trouble that the church of God was in, when the enemies were in insolent and threatening, in which case the church does not so much pour out her complaint to God as place her confidence in God, and triumph in doing so; and with such a holy triumph we ought to sing this psalm.
Psa 115:1-8
Sufficient care is here taken to answer both the pretensions of self and the reproaches of idolaters.
Psa 115:9-18
In these verses,