John Calvin Commentary Psalms 148:5

"Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For he commanded, and they were created." — Psalms 148:5 (ASV)

Let them praise the name, etc. As he speaks of things lacking intelligence, he passes to the third person, from which we infer that his reason for having spoken in the second person previously was to make a deeper impression upon men. And he asks no other praise than that which may teach us that the stars did not make themselves, nor the rains spring from chance; for despite the clear proofs we constantly have before our eyes of the divine power, we with shameful carelessness overlook the great author.

He says emphatically—for He Himself created, intimating that the world is not eternal, as wicked men conjecture, nor made by a concourse of atoms, but that this beautiful order of things which we see, suddenly came into being at the commandment of God. And, speaking of the creation, he adds what is even more noteworthy: that He gave that law to them which remains inviolable.

For many, while they grant that the world was made by God, lapse from this into the senseless notion that now the order of nature operates independently, and that God sits idle in the heavens. The Psalmist therefore rightly insists that the works of God above us in the heavens were not only made by Him, but even now move forward at His disposal. He further emphasizes that not only was a secret power communicated to them at first, but as they fulfill their assigned roles, their operation and service toward their various purposes are dependent on God.