Psalms 150:6

Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
breath	הַ֭נְּשָׁמָה Ha.ne.sha.mah	H5397	a puff · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
praise	תְּהַלֵּ֥ל te.ha.Lel	H1984	to be clear (orig. of sound · verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
LORD	יָ֗הּ Yah	H3050	Jah · proper noun, a man's name
Praise	הַֽלְלוּ ha.lu-	H1984	to be clear (orig. of sound · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
LORD	יָֽהּ Yah	H3050	Jah · proper noun, a man's name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Revelation 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I…
Psalms 103:22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
Psalms 145:10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
Psalms 148:7-11 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 150:1–end

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. And the repeated inculcating of the call thus intimates that it is a great and necessary duty, a duty which we should be much employed and much enlarged in, but which we are naturally backward to and cold in, and therefore need to be brought to, and held to, by precept upon precept, and line upon line. Observe here, I. Whence this tribute of praise arises, and out o…

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John Gill on Psalms 150:6

Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord,.... Even the brute creatures, as in a preceding; but more especially man, in whom God has breathed the breath of life, and is become not only a living but a rational soul; and more especially spiritual men, converted persons, whether Jews or Gentiles; on whom the Spirit of the Lord has breathed, and whom he has quickened; and who breathe in prayer after divine things; and who also have abundant reason to bless and praise his name for what he has bestowed upon them, and has in reserve for them; and for which they should praise him as long as they have breath; see Revelation 5:13; praise ye the Lord; all before mentioned, and in the manner as d…

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John Calvin on Psalms 150:1–end

Psalm 150:1-6 1. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2. Praise him in, his might; praise him for the plenitude of his greatness. 3. Praise him with sound of trumpet, [306] praise him with psaltry and harp. 4. Praise him with timbrel [307] and pipe, [308] praise him upon chords, [309] and the organ. [310] 5. Praise him upon cymbals of sound, praise him upon cymbals of jubilation [311] 6. Whatsoever breathes, let it praise God. Hallelujah. 1. Praise God in his sanctuary. This psalm in general commends the spiritual worship of God, which consists in sacrifices of praise. By the sanctuary there is little doubt that heaven is here meant, as is often the case e…

The Church Fathers

And since to savour of the flesh is death, "let every spirit praise the Lord" [Psalm 150:6].
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 150

But someone will say: if the divine nature is incomprehensible, then why do you discourse about these things? Well then, because I cannot drink up the whole stream, am I not even to take in proportion to my need? Or because I cannot take in all the sunlight owing to the constitution of my eyes, am I not even to gaze on what is sufficient for my wants? On entering a vast orchard, because I cannot eat all the fruit therein, would you have me go away completely hungry? I praise and glorify him who made us; for it is a divine command that says, "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!" I am endeavoring now to glorify the Lord, not to describe him, though I know that I shall fall short of glorifying him worthily; still I consider it a godly work to try all the same. For the Lord Jesus encourages my weakness when he says, "No one has at any time seen God."
— Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture 6:5

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Dictionary and topics

Praise · Is obligatory upon: All creation — Is obligatory upon: All creation

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 150:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 150:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 150:6

John Calvin on Psalms 150:1–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 150:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 150:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 150:6

John Calvin on Psalms 150:1–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 150:6

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 150:6