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Psalms 117:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

(Title), This Psalm, the shortest in the whole collection, is written as a part of the preceding in thirty-two manuscripts. It celebrates the deliverance from the Babylonian captivity, the grand type of the redemption of the world by the Messiah.

O praise: Psalms 66:1, Psalms 66:4, Psalms 67:3, Psalms 86:9; Isaiah 24:15-16, Isaiah 42:10-12; Romans 15:11; Revelation 15:4

praise him: Psalms 148:11-14, Psalms 150:6; Revelation 5:9, Revelation 7:9-10

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