Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let them praise Yahweh’s name, For he commanded, and they were created.
- BSB Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.
- NKJV Let them praise the name of the Lord, For He commanded and they were created.
- NASB They are to praise the name of the Lord, For He commanded and they were created.
- NLT Let every created thing give praise to the Lord, for he issued his command, and they came into being.
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Quick answer
Let all praise the LORD, for He commanded and they were created. Creation owes its very existence to God's word and so must praise Him.
Overview
The reason for praise is given: God simply spoke and these things came to be. Creation out of nothing by His command grounds the duty of all things to worship Him. This creating word is the same Word through whom all things were made, who is Christ (John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Rev 4:11Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
- Gen 1:6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
- Ps 33:6–9By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
- Gen 1:1–2In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Jer 10:11–13Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
- Ps 95:5The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
- Amos 9:6It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
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