Psalm - 145:3



3 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

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Explanation and meaning of Psalm 145:3.

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Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.
Great is Jehovah, and exceedingly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Great is Jehovah, and praised greatly, And of His greatness there is no searching.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised - See Psalm 96:4, note; Psalm 18:3, note.
And his greatness is unsearchable - See Job 5:9, note; Job 9:10, note; Job 11:7-8, notes.

His greatness is unsearchable - Literally, To his mightinesses there is no investigation. All in God is unlimited and eternal.

(b) Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness [is] unsearchable.
(b) By this he declares that all power is subject to God, and that no worldly promotion should obscure God's glory.

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,.... Christ is the great God as well as our Saviour; great in all the perfections of his nature, of great wisdom, power, faithfulness, holiness, grace, and goodness; great in his person as God-man, God manifest in the flesh; great in all his offices and relations he bears and stands in to his people; and great in all his works of creation, providence, and redemption, in which he is concerned; and upon all which accounts he is to be praised, and greatly to be praised, by his people, even to the utmost of their capacities, here and hereafter; see Psalm 48:1;
and his greatness is unsearchable; the greatness of his nature, and the perfections of it, these are past finding out; and so are his ways and works, and the riches of his grace, John 11:7. The Targum is,
"and of his greatness there is no end.''
So the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions.

(Compare Psalm 18:3; Psalm 48:1).
greatness--as displayed in His works.

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