Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!
Verse Takeaways
1
Who Is Called to Praise?
Scholars debate whether "everything that hath breath" refers to all living creatures, or more specifically to the human worshippers assembled in the Temple. A common view, noted by commentators like John Calvin, is that the verse prophetically expands the call to worship from Israel to all of humanity, foreseeing a time when Gentiles would join in praising God.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Psalms
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
6
18th Century
Presbyterian
Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord - All living things in the air, the earth, the waters. Let there be one universal burst of p…
19th Century
Anglican
Everything that hath breath.— Septuagint “every breath;” Vulgate, “every spirit;” literally, all breath. We natu…
Baptist
A Jewish Rabbi once remarked to me that the name Jehovah was not made up of letters, but only of a series of breathings. (The preacher here uttered…
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
16th Century
Protestant
Whatever breathes, etc. Since the word נשמה, neshamah, means breath, or blowing, and refers to whatever is anim…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord Even the brute creatures, as in a preceding; but more especially man, in whom G…
We are here stirred up to praise God. Praise God for His sanctuary and the privileges we enjoy by having it among us; praise Him because of His pow…
Get curated content & updates
