Psalm 147:1
147:1 Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto
      our God; for [it is] {a} pleasant; [and] praise is comely.

      (a) He shows in which we ought to exercise ourselves
          continually, and to take our pastime: that is, in
          praising God.

Psalm 147:2
147:2 The LORD doth build up {b} Jerusalem: he gathereth
      together the outcasts of Israel.

      (b) Because the Lord is the founder of the Church, it
          cannot be destroyed, though the members of it are
          dispersed and seem as it were for a time to be cut
          off.

Psalm 147:3
147:3 He healeth the {c} broken in heart, and bindeth up their
      wounds.

      (c) With affliction, or sorrow for sin.

Psalm 147:4
147:4 He {d} telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them
      all by [their] names.

      (d) Though it seems incredible to man, that God should
          assemble his Church, being so dispersed, yet nothing
          can be too hard to him that can number and name all
          the stars.

Psalm 147:6
147:6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down
      to the {e} ground.

      (e) For the more high that the wicked climb the greater is
          their fall in the end.

Psalm 147:8
147:8 Who {f} covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth
      rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the
      mountains.

      (f) He shows by the example of God's mighty power,
          goodness, and wisdom, that he can never lack just
          opportunity to praise God.

Psalm 147:9
147:9 He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens
      which {g} cry.

      (g) For their crying is as it were a confession of their
          need, which cannot be relieved, but by God alone, then
          if God show himself mindful of the most contemptible
          souls, can he suffer them to die with famine, whom he
          has assured of life everlasting?

Psalm 147:10
147:10 He delighteth not in the {h} strength of the horse: he
       taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

       (h) Though to use lawful means is both profitable and
           pleases God, yet to put our trust in them is to
           defraud God of his honour.

Psalm 147:13
147:13 For he hath {i} strengthened the bars of thy gates; he
       hath blessed thy children within thee.

       (i) He not only furnishes his Church with all that is
           necessary but preserves also the same, and makes it
           strong against all outward force.

Psalm 147:15
147:15 He sendeth forth his {k} commandment [upon] earth: his
       word runneth very {l} swiftly.

       (k) His secret working in all creatures is as a command
           to keep them in order and to give them moving and
           force.
       (l) For immediately and without resisting all things obey
           him.

Psalm 147:19
147:19 He sheweth his {m} word unto Jacob, his statutes and his
       judgments unto Israel.

       (m) As before he called God's secret working in all his
           creatures his word: so he means by this his word the
           doctrine of life everlasting, which he has left to
           his Church as a precious treasure.

Psalm 147:20
147:20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his]
       judgments, they have not {n} known them. Praise ye the
       LORD.

       (n) The cause of this difference is God's free mercy,
           which has elected his in his Son Christ Jesus to
           salvation: and his just judgment, by which he has
           appointed the reprobate to eternal damnation.