HTML edition for divineprinciplebible.com, continuing Psalms with chapters 111 through 115. Commentary is included only where the passages are especially significant for remembering God’s wondrous works, fearing the LORD, the blessed man, the LORD’s high condescension, the exodus pattern, and the contrast between the living God and dead idols. Simple diagrams are added where they clarify the movement of the psalm. Divine Principle and True Father are named where the connection is clearly in view.
Comment on 111:1: Psalm 111 begins with wholehearted praise in the assembly. This is important. The praise is not divided or casual, but full-hearted and public before the upright.
Comment on 111:2: God’s works are to be sought out, not ignored. Divine Principle strongly resonates with this because providential history must be studied, remembered, and discerned by those who delight in Heaven’s acts.
Comment on 111:4: Memory and compassion are joined. God’s works are not bare displays of power, but manifestations of gracious and compassionate heart.
Comment on 111:5 and 111:9: Provision, redemption, and covenant mindfulness form the core of the psalm. Divine Principle strongly values God’s enduring covenant faithfulness through history.
Comment on 111:10: This is one of the great wisdom lines in Scripture. True wisdom begins not with self-confidence, but with reverent alignment before Heaven.
Comment on 112:1: Psalm 112 presents the blessed life of the God-fearing man. Fear of the LORD is joined not to dread alone, but to delight in His commandments.
Comment on 112:4: This is a beautiful righteous-life promise. Divine Principle strongly resonates with light arising in darkness for the upright, because Heaven does not abandon the sincere-hearted in the night course.
Comment on 112:5–6: Mercy and stability go together. The righteous life is generous and firm, not selfish and shaken.
Comment on 112:7: This is one of the great fixed-heart verses. True Father often emphasized that the heart rooted in Heaven does not collapse every time bad news comes.
Comment on 112:9–10: The righteous gives to the poor and endures in honor, while the wicked’s desire perishes. This is a strong reversal pattern.
Psalm 112 is a psalm of the blessed and stable righteous person. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes of delighting in God’s commandments, shining in darkness, living generously toward the poor, and maintaining a fixed heart under evil tidings through trust in the LORD.
Comment on 113:1 and 113:3: Psalm 113 calls the servants of the LORD into ceaseless praise across the whole span of the day. Heaven’s name is worthy from dawn to dusk.
Comment on 113:4–5: God’s transcendence is emphasized strongly. Yet the psalm will immediately show that His greatness does not make Him distant from the lowly.
Comment on 113:6: This is a wonderful verse. Even to look upon heaven and earth, God humbles Himself. Divine Principle strongly resonates with this because God’s greatness includes descending concern and active heart toward creation and humanity.
Comment on 113:7–8: Heaven lifts the poor from the dust and sets them among princes. This is a strong reversal theme of restoration and elevation by God’s initiative.
Comment on 113:9: Fruitlessness is turned into joy and house-building. Divine Principle strongly values such restoration from sorrow and barrenness into family and fulfillment.
Psalm 113 is a psalm of lofty glory and lowly compassion. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes of God’s transcendence joined to condescending love, His lifting of the poor and needy, and His transforming of barren sorrow into joyful household fruitfulness.
Comment on 114:1–2: Psalm 114 is a compact and powerful exodus psalm. It begins with deliverance from Egypt and immediately links the people to sanctuary and dominion. Divine Principle strongly resonates with this, because God’s providence delivers in order to establish a holy people and rightful domain.
Comment on 114:3–4: Nature itself reacts to Heaven’s redemptive act. The sea flees, Jordan retreats, and mountains leap. This is a beautiful image of creation responding to God’s mighty intervention in history.
Comment on 114:5 and 114:7: The answer to the rhetorical questions is simple: the Lord is present. Divine Principle strongly affirms that all order must respond when Heaven actively enters the providential scene.
Comment on 114:8: The wilderness rock becoming water is a powerful restoration image. Heaven can bring life out of what appears hardest and driest.
Psalm 114 is a great exodus-remembrance psalm. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes of deliverance from bondage, the establishment of a holy dominion, and the truth that even nature trembles and yields when the God of Jacob moves directly in providential history.
Comment on 115:1: Psalm 115 begins with one of the great anti-self-glory lines in Scripture. Divine Principle strongly resonates with this because true providential victory belongs to God’s name, mercy, and truth, not to fallen human boasting.
Comment on 115:2–3: The nations may mock, but the answer is heavenward sovereignty. God is not absent because He is not visible in idol form; He reigns from heaven and acts according to His will.
Comment on 115:4–5: The psalm exposes idols as crafted objects with imitation features but no living power. Divine Principle strongly affirms that man’s substitutes for God are lifeless and cannot save or guide.
Comment on 115:8: This is a profound verse. Those who trust dead idols become like them. What man worships shapes what he becomes.
Comment on 115:9–11: The answer to idols is repeated trust in the LORD. The call goes out to Israel, priesthood, and all God-fearers alike.
Comment on 115:12 and 115:14: Mindfulness, blessing, and increase reach into the generations. This is a covenant-family blessing pattern.
Comment on 115:16: This is an important dominion verse. Divine Principle strongly resonates with it, because God’s intention includes human responsibility on earth under Heaven’s sovereignty.
Comment on 115:18: The psalm ends where it began: glory and blessing directed to the living God alone.
Psalm 115 is a psalm of God-centered glory, exposure of idols, and generational blessing. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes of refusing self-glory, distinguishing the living God from lifeless human substitutes, becoming like what one worships, and receiving Heaven’s remembered blessing across the generations while fulfilling human responsibility on earth.
God of Original Ideal Commentary
Psalm 111 is a psalm of remembered works, covenant faithfulness, and wisdom. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes of studying Heaven’s acts in history, recognizing God’s compassionate heart in redemption, and beginning true wisdom with reverent fear of the LORD.