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Psalms 150:6

everything that hath breath Heb. all breath, Vulg. omnis spiritus, Jer. omne quod spirat. Cp. Deuteronomy 20:16; Joshua 10:40. Neshâmâhmost commonly denotes the breath of man; but it may include all animals. Not priests and Levites only but all Israel, not Israel only but all mankind, not all mankind only but every living thing, must join in the chorus of praise. The universe is Jehovah's Temple, and all its inhabitants should be His worshippers.

The Psalmist's words find their echo in the vision of the Apocalypse:

"Every created thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things that are in them, heard I saying,

"Unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the dominion, for ever and ever."

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See also Psalms 150:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 150:6. _LET EVERY THING THAT HATH BREATH_] Either to make a vocal noise, or a sound by blowing into _pipes, fifes, flutes,_ _trumpets_, c. Let all join together, and put forth all your _...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 praise. Let his praises be celebrated not only with instrumen...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 144-150 THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS The five Psalms with which this marvellous book closeth are all Psalms of praise. The word “praise” is found in the Hebrew thirty-seven times. Each one of these Ps...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CL. Each book ends with a doxology. Here we have a much longer doxology, which closes Book V and the whole Psalter also. The praise of God begins from His sanctuary, _i.e._ probably from His sanctuary...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BREATH. Hebrew. _neshamah_ (see App-16): i.e. in contrast with material instruments. PRAISE THE LORD. Hebrew. _tehallel jah._ PRAISE YE THE LORD. Hebrew. _Halelujah,_ thus fitly closing the Book of...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 752 THE DUTY IS PRAISING GOD Psalms 150:6. _Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord._ GREATLY diversified has David’s experience been, as depicted in the Book of Psalms. Sometimes...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 150 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Expansion and Enforcement of the Public Reader's Invitation to the People to Join in the Responses in the Temple-Worship. ANALYSIS 1. The Public Reader's Invitation_...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Living voices shall take up the failing sounds of dead instruments, and as they cease on earth, those of intelligent ransomed spirits and holy angels, as with the sound of mighty thunders, will prolon...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is 'the grand Finale of the spiritual concert,' and worthily closes not only this little Hallelujah group, but the whole Psalter....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD IS THE BEST! PSALMS 150 THE LAST *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "If people *held their *peace, the stones would immediately start shouting" ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    EVERYTHING THAT HATH BREATH. — LXX. “every breath;” Vulg., “every spirit;” literally, _all breath._ We naturally wish to give these words their largest intent, and to hear the psalter close with an in...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֣ל הַ֭ נְּשָׁמָה תְּהַלֵּ֥ל יָ֗הּ הַֽלְלוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 150:1 THIS noble close of the Psalter rings out one clear note of praise, as the end of all the many moods and experiences recorded in its wonderful sighs and songs. Tears, groans, wailings for...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      THE PRAISE-SONGS OF GOD'S PEOPLE Psalms 149:1-9; Psalms 150:1-6 Israel was formed into a nation and delivered from Babylon, that her singers should lead the praises of mankind, and her teachers pr...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This psalm which concludes the book, and all the Psalter as final doxology, is the most comprehensive, and illuminative illustration of perfect praise in the whole Psalter. In our analysis of it as do...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Let every thing that hath (d) breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD. (d) He shows that all the order of nature is bound to this duty, and much more God's children, who ought never to cease to pr...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _HALLELUJAH!_ ‘O praise God in His holiness: praise Him in the firmament of His power,’ etc. Psalms 150:1; Psalms 150:6 (Prayer Book Version) I. CONSIDER THE NATURE OF PRAISE.—(1) From such passage...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._Whatever breathes, etc. _As the word נשמה,_neshamah, _means _breath, _or _blowing, _and whatever is animate, or breathes, the words may be extended to every kind of living creatures, as we have see...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 150 is a general closing summons to praise Jehovah only, remark, it is now freely in His sanctuary, as well as in the firmament of His power in His sanctuary, with all the various instruments o...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET EVERYTHING THAT HATH BREATH PRAISE THE LORD,.... Even the brute creatures, as in a preceding; but more especially man, in whom God has breathed the breath of life, and is become not only a living...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD. Ver. 6. _Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord_] Or, Let every breath praise the Lord. _Tam Dei meminisse opus est qua...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord_ Every living creature in heaven and earth, Revelation 5:13, according to their several capacities, some objectively, as manifesting his glorious perf...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord, all living beings joining with their voices to proclaim the glory of His name. PRAISE YE THE LORD! "There is nothing in the Psalter more majestic or mo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONCLUDING HYMN OF PRAISE. The last Hallelujah Psalm is a fitting doxology for the whole Book of Psalms, proclaiming the place, theme, mode, and extent of God's praise....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    EVERY THING THAT HATH BREATH; every living creature in heaven and in earth, REVELATION 5:13, according to their several capabilities, some objectively, others actively, as was noted before....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 150:6 breath H5397 praise H1984 (H8762) LORD H3050 Praise H1984 (H8761) LORD H3050 Let every thing -...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 150:1 , PSALMS 150:6 I. Consider the nature of praise. (1) From such passages as Isaiah 6:1; Revelation 4:8;...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 150:1. _Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary:_ Notice how, in this last Psalm, it is praise, praise, praise, all the way through. I think we have the word «praise» some thirteen tim...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The psalmist would fill all the world with God's praises. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: What have we our breath for but to spend it in praising God and how can we spend it better? Since we...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The full choir, the full band, and the full heart, are here exhorted to praise the Lord. Surely this, when holy prophets joined in the worship, must resemble heaven itself. But oh how can drunkards, s...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Praise God in His sanctuary._ WORSHIP I. Its spirit is exultation. Is there gratitude in it? Yes, gratitude of the highest type and degree, and gratitude is an element of joy. Is there admiration in...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord._ THE BREATH OF PRAISE I. Praise in every age is one of the most important parts of worship. The holiest saint, what is he in the sight of God by natu...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 150:1. This hymn closes the Psalter with its call for “everything that has breath” to praise the Lord with every kind of jubilant accompaniment. The list of musical instrume...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 150:3 Praising God fully requires more than human voices. It also requires instruments as varied as TRUMPET, LUTE, HARP, strings

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION Dean Perowne speaks of this Psalm as “the great closing Hallelujah, or Doxology, of the Psalter, in which every kind of musical instrument is to hear its part as well as the voice of man,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION COMMENTATORS generally are agreed that this is a most noble psalm, a fit conclusion to the noble collection which here terminates. Professor Cheyne says, "Psalms 150:1 closes this Halleluja...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, again, the final psalm is an exhortation of praise and to praise the Lord in unusual ways, as far as we firstly perhaps are concerned. Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Psalms 103:22; Psalms 145:10; Psalms 148:7; Revelation 5:13...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Also — Every living creature in heaven and in earth....

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