Psalms 150:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in the sky, which testifies to his strength!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַ֥לְלוּיָ֨הּ ׀ הַֽלְלוּ־אֵ֥ל בְּקָדְשׁ֑וֹ הֽ͏ַ֝לְל֗וּהוּ בִּרְקִ֥יעַ עֻזּֽוֹ

Transliteration

Hallelūyāh ׀ Hallelū-ʾēl in-qodšō Hallelūhū in-rāqîaʿ ʿuzzō

Grammar Details

• *Hallelūyāh*: imperative, plural - praise Yah
• *Hallelū*: imperative, plural - praise
• *ʾēl*: direct object marker with noun - God
• *qodšō*: noun with 3rd person masculine singular possessive suffix - his holiness/sanctuary
• *Hallelūhū*: imperative plural with 3rd person masculine singular object suffix - praise him
• *rāqîaʿ*: noun, masculine singular construct - firmament/expanse
• *ʿuzzō*: noun with 3rd person masculine singular possessive suffix - his strength/might

Word Meanings

• *ʾēl*: God/deity/mighty one
• *qodšō*: his sanctuary/holy place/holiness
• *rāqîaʿ*: firmament/expanse/visible arch of the sky
• *ʿuzzō*: his strength/power/might

Referenced Verses

• Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift your hands toward the sanctuary and praise the LORD!
• Ps 149:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song! Praise him in the assembly of the godly!
• Ps 29:9 : 9 The LORD’s shout bends the large trees and strips the leaves from the forests. Everyone in his temple says,“Majestic!”
• Ps 102:19 : 19 For he will look down from his sanctuary above; from heaven the LORD will look toward earth,
• Dan 12:3 : 3 But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.
• Ps 116:18-19 : 18 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD before all his people, 19 in the courts of the LORD’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!
• Ps 118:19-20 : 19 Open for me the gates of the just king’s temple! I will enter through them and give thanks to the LORD. 20 This is the LORD’s gate– the godly enter through it.
• Ps 66:13-16 : 13 I will enter your temple with burnt sacrifices; I will fulfill the vows I made to you, 14 which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble. 15 I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices, along with the smell of sacrificial rams. I will offer cattle and goats.(Selah) 16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me.
• Ps 19:1 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork.
• Ezek 1:22-26 : 22 Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, glittering awesomely like ice, stretched out over their heads. 23 Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering its body. 24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings– it was like the sound of rushing waters, or the voice of the Sovereign One, or the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings. 25 Then there was a voice from above the platform over their heads when they stood still. 26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.
• Ezek 10:1 : 1 God’s Glory Leaves the Temple As I watched, I saw on the platform above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.
• Gen 1:6-8 : 6 God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so. 8 God called the expanse“sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.