Matthew Henry Commentary Psalms 150

We are here stirred up to praise God. Praise God for His sanctuary and the privileges we enjoy by having it among us; praise Him because of His power and glory in the heavens. Those who praise the Lord in heaven behold displays of His power and glory that we cannot now conceive. But the greatest of all His mighty acts is known in His earthly sanctuary. The holiness and the love of our God are more displayed in man's redemption than in all His other works.

Let us praise our God and Savior for it. We do not need to be concerned with knowing what instruments of music are mentioned. This means that in serving God we should spare no expense or effort.

Praise God with strong faith; praise Him with holy love and delight; praise Him with entire confidence in Christ; praise Him with believing triumph over the powers of darkness; praise Him by complete adherence to all His commands; praise Him by cheerful submission to all His providences; praise Him by rejoicing in His love, and comforting ourselves in His goodness; praise Him by promoting the interests of the kingdom of His grace; praise Him by lively hope and expectation of the kingdom of His glory.

Since we must shortly breathe our last, while we have breath let us praise the Lord; then we shall breathe our last with comfort. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

Such is the very suitable end of a book inspired by the Spirit of God, written for the work of praise; a book that has supplied the songs of the church for more than three thousand years; a book that is quoted more frequently than any other by Christ and His apostles; a book that presents the loftiest ideas of God and His government, that is fitted to every state of human life, that sets forth every state of religious experience, and that bears simple and clear marks of its Divine origin.