The Holy Bible Verses

Psalms 148:1

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!”

— WEB

“Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.”

— KJV

“Praise ye Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens: Praise him in the heights.”

— ASV

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Commentary

We, in this dark and depressed world, know but little of the world of light and exaltation, and, conversing within narrow confines, can scarcely admit any tolerable conceptions of the vast regions above. But this we know, I. That there is above us a world of blessed angels by whom God is praised, an innumerable company of them. Thousand thousands minister unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stand before him; and it is his glory that he has such attendants, but much more his glory that he neither needs them, nor is, nor can be, any way benefited by them. To that bright and happy world the psalmist has an eye here, Psa 148:1, Psa 148:2. In general, to the heavens, to the heights. The heavens are the heights, and therefore we must lift up our souls above the world unto God in the heavens, and on things above we must set our affections. It is his desire that God may be praised from the heavens, that thence a praising frame may be transmitted to this world in which we live, that while we are so cold, and low, and flat, in praising God, there are those above who are doing it in a better manner, and that while we are so often interrupted in this work they rest not day nor night from it. In particular, he had an eye to God's angels, to his hosts, and calls upon them to praise God.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)

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