The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 117:1-2

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EXPOSITION

IT has been doubted whether this exceedingly short psalm can ever have been in tended for a separate composition, and was not rather written as a conclusion to Psalms 116:1-19. or an introduction to Psalms 118:1-29. In Hebrew manuscripts it is often attached to one or other of these two psalms; but in the versions and in the best manuscripts it is always separate. The writer calls upon all the nations of the earth to laud and praise Jehovah, on the ground of his great mercy and faithfulness to Israel. The solidarity of the rest of mankind with Israel is assumed (comp. Psalms 47:1; Psalms 66:1, Psalms 66:8; Psalms 98:4; Psalms 100:1, etc.).

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