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Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!
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Praise Begins in Heaven
The psalm opens with a powerful call for praise to begin not on earth, but "from the heavens." Commentators explain this summons the most exalted beings—angels and glorified spirits—in the highest places to lead a universal chorus of worship. This establishes that praising God is the primary activity and purpose of the heavenly realm.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Praise ye the Lord — See the notes at Psalms 146:1.
Praise ye the Lord from the heavens — On the part of the…
19th Century
Anglican
From the heavens ... in the heights.— Some would translate you of the heavens, but the parallelism is in favour of the Au…
Baptist
Praise ye the LORD.
Hallelujah!
Praise ye the LORD from the heavens:
Begin the song, you holy angels before the…
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16th Century
Protestant
Praise Jehovah from the heavens. He seems here to include the stars as well as the angels, and therefore heaven itself, the air, and all t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Praise you the Lord Or, hallelujah: which, in some versions, and with some interpreters, is the title of the psalm; expre…
We, in this dark and sinful world, know little of the heavenly world of light. But we know that there is a world of blessed angels above us. They a…
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