Psalm 148 was the inspiration for the morning hymn of Adam and Eve by Milton. It is a song of The covenant redeemer and creator and calls on heaven, the elements and people of the earth and the redeemed to praise the Lord

1. Praise Finale
psalm 148
part 3
Let there be praise!
From stars, weather, animals!
From the world’s people!
From the redeemed!

2. Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost
have a morning hymn where they
address angels, elements and animals
Milton’s inspiration was
Psalm 148
Milton, in his Paradise Lost (Book 5, line 153, & c.), has
elegantly imitated this Psalm, and put it into the mouth of
Adam and Eve as their morning hymn in a state of innocency.
—James Anderson.
Treasury of David by Spurgeon

3. Psalm 148
Praise the Lord!
Let there be praise!
The Lord is Yahweh, the covenant name of God
in all these closing five Psalms of the book of Psalms

4. Praise starting above the earth
celestial bodies
angels and
clouds
above
Let there be praise!

5. 2
Praise him, all his angels;
praise him, all his hosts!

6. 3
Praise him, sun and moon,

7. praise him, all you shining stars!

8. 4
Praise him, you highest heavens,
and you waters above the heavens!

9. 5
Let them praise the name of the Lord!
For he commanded and they were created.
6
And he established them forever and ever;
he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.
The angels and stars in the heavens
created and sustained by God’s word
Angels and men are to praise
the name of the Lord

10. Praise from the things on the earth
Giant squid, hail, mountains,
fruit trees, cedar,
hippo and
chickens

11. 7
Praise the Lord from the earth,
you great sea creatures and all deeps,

12. 8
fire and hail, snow and mist,
stormy wind fulfilling his word!

13. 9
Mountains and all hills,

14. Fruit trees!
(trees that provide
food)
and all cedars!
(trees that provide
wood for building)

15. 10
Beasts and all livestock,

16. creeping things and flying birds!

17. ….“which do His word.” Think not then that these things
are moved by chance, which in every motion of theirs
obey God. Whither God wills, there the fire spreads, there
the cloud hurries, whether it carry in it rain, or snow, or
hail. And wherefore does the lightning sometimes strike
the mountain, yet strikes not the robber?
Augustine of Hippo

18. He rules!
Praise Him people of the earth!
young and old, men and women
and kids!

19. 11
Kings of the earth and all peoples,
princes and all rulers of the earth!
Rulers should praise
He who is the ultimate ruler

20. 12
Young men and maidens together,
old men and children!

21. 13
Let them praise the name of the Lord,
for his name alone is exalted;
his majesty is above earth and heaven.
Angels and men are to praise
the name of the Lord

22. …. the heavens, the work of God’s
fingers; the moon and the stars,
ordained by him; and man, …. in the
Psalm 148, after a particular mention
of most of the works of creation,
enumerating them in order, the
psalmist says, verse 13, “Let them
praise the name of the Lord, for his
name alone is excellent, his glory is
above the earth and the heaven.”
Jonathan Edwards

23. And the high point
Praise from his saints,
His redeemed

24. And the high point
Praise from his saints,
His redeemed
14
He has raised up a horn for his people,
praise for all his saints,
for the people of Israel who are near to
him.
This Psalm written after the people were exiled 70 years,
the people in need of strength and stability
God has provided strength for them somehow
in ‘the horn’

25. The altar in the temple has four horns
and this also may remind them
of their source of strength being in God
14
He has raised up a horn for his people,
praise for all his saints,
for the people of Israel who are near to
him.
Praise the Lord

26. Ultimately Jesus is ‘the horn’
provided
and is the strength in our weakness
and is our righteousness,
“a horn’ provided for the peoples of the
four corners of the word

27. psalm 148
ends (as it started)
with a second person plural imperative
Praise the Lord.
A Hallelujah inclusio!