Where is it in the Bible?
Psalm 150:6
6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.
In other translations
- ESV
- 6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
- NLT
- 6Let everything that breathes sing praises to the LORD! Praise the LORD!
- CSB
- 6Let everything that breathes praise the LORD. Hallelujah!
- KJV
- 6Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
The surrounding passage
Psalm 150:4–6, King James Version
4Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
Context
The final verse of the book of Psalms. Psalm 150 is a closing doxology that calls for God to be praised in his sanctuary with trumpet, harp and lyre, timbrel and dancing, strings and pipe, and cymbals, and it ends with every living thing joining in. "Praise the LORD" translates the Hebrew "Hallelujah."
About the book of Psalms
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