They are to 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.
- KJV Let them praise the name of the LORD: 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.
- NLT Let every created thing give praise to the Lord, for he issued his command, and they came into being.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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 4:11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
- Gen 1:6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
- Ps 33:6–9By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
- Gen 1:1–2In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Jer 10:11–13“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
- Ps 95:5The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
- Amos 9:6It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
Themes, concepts, people & topics
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.
Christ at the center
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.
How Psalms 148:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.
Original language
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.