Psalms 150:1
Hallelujah. Praise ye God in his sanctuary: praise him in the expansion of his power.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
In Context
2Praise him for his acts of might: praise him according to the abundance of his greatness.
Cross References
Psalms 19:1“To the chief musician, a psalm of David.” (19:2) The heavens relate the glory of God; and the expanse telleth of the works of his hands.
Psalms 29:9The voice of the Lord causeth the hinds to start, and maketh bare forests: and in his temple every thing speaketh [of his] glory.
Psalms 102:19(102:20) For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord hath cast from heaven his view to the earth:
Psalms 116:19In the courts of the house of the Lord, in thy midst, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah.
Psalms 134:2Lift up your hands toward the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
Ezekiel 1:22And the likeness of a vault was over the head of the living creatures, [shining] like the glitter of the purest crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 150:1
The first and last of the psalms have both the same number of verses, are both short, and very memorable. But the scope of them is very different: the first psalm is an elaborate instruction in our duty, to prepare us for the comforts of our devotion; this is all rapture and transport, and perhaps was penned on purpose to be the conclusion of these sacred songs, to show what is the design of them all, and that is to assist us in praising God. The psalmist had been himself full of the praises of God, and here he… Read the whole commentary →