Hallelujah! Praise the name of the LORD. Give praise, O servants of the LORD,
Parallel translations
- WEB Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh’s name! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
- KJV Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise him, O ye servants of the LORD.
- NKJV Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord; Praise Him, O you servants of the Lord!
- NASB Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord; Praise Him, you servants of the Lord,
- NLT Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord! Praise him, you who serve the Lord,
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Quick answer
It summons the servants of Yahweh to praise His name. It opens a call to wholehearted worship of the Lord.
Overview
This psalm begins with a ringing call to praise the name of Yahweh, addressed to all who serve Him. Praising God's name means honoring His revealed character and works. Such worship finds its fullest expression in Christ, in whom God's name and glory are made known.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Ps 96:1–4Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
- Ps 7:17I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
- Ps 33:1–2Rejoice in the LORD, O righteous ones; it is fitting for the upright to praise Him.
- Ps 111:1Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.
- Ps 148:13Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
- Ps 150:6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Hallelujah!
- Ps 149:1–3Hallelujah! Sing to the LORD a new song—His praise in the assembly of the godly.
- Ps 106:1Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
- Ps 107:8Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Ps 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
- Ps 102:21that they may proclaim the name of the LORD in Zion and praise Him in Jerusalem,
- Exod 34:5–7And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
- Ps 134:1A song of ascents. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!
- Neh 9:5Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.
- Ps 107:15Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Ps 117:1–2Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!
- Ps 113:1–3Hallelujah! Give praise, O servants of the LORD; praise the name of the LORD.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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