Psalms 150:6
Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Hallelujah!
BSB
ASV
Let everything that hath breath praise Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah.
KJV
Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. "Let all breath praise him": that is to say, all living beings. He gave them breath, let them breathe his praise. His name is in the Hebrew composed rather of breathings than of letters, to show that all breath comes from him: therefore let it be used for him. Join all ye living things in the eternal song. Be ye least or greatest, withhold not your praises. What a day will it be when all things in all places unite to glorify the one only living and true God!
We are here, with the greatest earnestness imaginable, excited to praise God; if, as some suppose, this psalm was primarily intended for the Levites, to stir them up to do their office in the house of the Lord, as singers and players on instruments, yet we must take it as speaking to us, who are made to our God spiritual priests.
Now that the gospel is ordered to be preached to every creature, to every human creature, it is required that every human creature praise the Lord. What have we our breath, our spirit, for, but to spend it in praising God; and how can we spend it better? Prayers are called our breathings, Lam. iii.
Bookends: the same words open and close
Psalms 1:1The Psalter is framed on purpose. It opens with the wisdom portal of Psalms 1–2 (the two ways, and the enthroned Son) and closes with five straight hallelujah psalms (146–150) ending “let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.” Torah at the door, praise at the end.
Wilson, The Editing of the Hebrew Psalter (1985) / 'Shape of the Book of Psalms' (1992); critique: Whybray, Reading the Psalms as a Book (1996)
Psalms 1:1. Whybray (Reading the Psalms as a Book, 1996) argues the editorial shaping Wilson proposed is lighter than claimed and that the collection grew more loosely than a single designed frame.
The Psalter's own ending: worship widened to everything that hath breath
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Revelation 5:13And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to…
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that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom,…
Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His heavenly hosts.
In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
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Psalms 145:10All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD, and Your saints will bless You.
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The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!
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Psalms 103:22Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!
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Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.