Psalms 146:1
Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Alleluja. Laudate Dominum, quoniam bonus est psalmus ; Deo nostro sit jucunda, decoraque laudatio.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἁλληλουιά. Ἁγγαίου καὶ Ζαχαρίου. Αἰνεῖτε τὸν κύριον, ὅτι ἀγαθὸν ψαλμός· τῷ θεῷ ἡμῶν ἡδυνθείη αἴνεσις·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 147:1
- הַ֥לְלוּ יָ֨הּ כִּי ט֭וֹב זַמְּרָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ כִּֽי נָ֝עִים נָאוָ֥ה תְהִלָּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Alleluia. In some editions of the Septuagint (Haydock) and in Syriac, Arabic, &c., the same inscription occurs, as in the former psalms. Many ascribe this to the same authors, and to the same occasion. Hebrew and Chaldean have no title. Yet the psalm seems to be a thanksgiving (Calmet) for the permission to build the temple and walls of Jerusalem, (Origen) which had been neglected, till God visited the people with a famine, ver. 8., 2 Esdras v. 1., and Aggeus i. 6. (Bossuet)
Zorobabel, &c., urge the people to build. (Syriac) (Calmet)
Still David might compose this psalm, as he was a prophet, (Berthier) and he may allude to the beginning of his reign, when the people were all united. (Jansenius)
Good. Agreeable and advantageous for us.
Praise. This consists in purity of life, rather than in the sweetest accents. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXLVII
1. It is said to us, “Praise the Lord” ( ver. 1 ). This is said to all nations, not to us alone. And these words, sounded forth through separate places by the Readers, each Church heareth separately; but the one same Voice of God proclaimeth unto all, that we praise Him. And as though we asked wherefore we ought to praise the Lord, behold what reason he hath brought forward: “Praise the Lord,” he saith, “for a Psalm is good.” Is this all the reward of them that praise?…The “Psalm” is praise of God. This then he saith, “Praise the Lord, for it is good to praise the Lord.” Let us not thus pass over the praise of the Lord. It is spoken, and hath passed: it is done, and we are silent: we have praised, and then rested; we have sung, and then rested. …