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📚Praise the LORD 📖! Praise the LORD from
the heavens.
Praise him in the heights.
2 📚Praise him, all his angels.
Praise him, all his hosts.
3 📚Praise him, sun and moon.
Praise him, all you stars of light.
148:3 The sun and moon have no personality and no life. In this respect they are like snow, hills, and clouds which the writer also exhorts to praise God – vs 8,9. This is poetry. The writer is merely setting forth a truth that delights him – all things were created by God and for the glory of God, and that because of them praise comes to God.⚜
4 📚Praise him, you heavens of
heavens,
and you waters above the heavens.
5 📚May they praise the name
of the LORD,
for he commanded and they were
created.
6 📚He has also established them
forever and ever;
he has made a decree which will
not pass away.
7 📚Praise the LORD from the earth,
you sea monsters, and all depths,
8 📚Fire and hail, snow and vapours,
stormy wind fulfilling his word,
9 📚Mountains and all hills,
fruitful trees and all cedars,
10 📚Beasts and all cattle,
creeping things and flying birds,
148:7-10 All creation on earth, animate and inanimate, are for the glory of God, and because of them all He receives praise.⚜
11 📚Kings of the earth and all people,
princes and all judges of the earth,
12 📚Both young men and maidens,
old men and children.
148:11-12 He comes now to humanity. On the grounds that God has created them all and preserves them all and is good to all, all should praise Him.⚜
13 📚May they praise the name of the LORD,
for his name alone is exalted.
His glory is above the earth and
the heavens.
14 📚And he exalts the horn 📖 of his people.
He is the praise of all his saints,
of the children of Israel,
a people close to him.
Praise the LORD!