This Psalm opens with an exhortation and a declaration. We are exhorted to “Praise ye the LORD” (Jehovah). The Psalmist then declares, “I will praise the LORD”. To “praise the LORD” is to recognize and appreciate that He is “holy and reverend” (Psalm 111:9). The “LORD” is “holy”; in that He is entirely unique in His sovereign righteousness, power, authority, and glory. The “LORD” is “reverend” in that He is held in great awe (“reverence”) by both his enemies and those who worship Him because His power is infinite. His enemies dreadfully fear (“reverence”) Him while His Children lovingly fear (“reverence”) Him. “He hath given meat unto them that fear him” (Psalm 111:5); that is, He has lovingly supplied their necessities from His infinite storehouse. “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom” (Psalm 110:10); that is, man would be most foolish to not be in “fear of the LORD”. To “praise the LORD” “with” our “whole heart” is to commit the entirety of our affections to the “LORD” and to hold Him higher than all the attractions around us. To “praise the LORD” “in the assembly of the upright” is to speak honorably of and to Him when gathered with others. To “praise the LORD” “in the congregation” is to meet with the Church and energetically participate in the worship, focusing our attention and affections upon the “LORD” in our fellowship, in our singing, in our prayers, and in the preaching of the Gospel. “Praise ye the LORD.”