Psalms 150:1

World English Bible (2000)

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

📖 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 up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
• Ps 149:1 : 1 Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.
• Ps 29:9 : 9 Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!"
• Ps 102:19 : 19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
• Dan 12:3 : 3 Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
• Ps 116:18-19 : 18 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people, 19 in the courts of Yahweh's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!
• Ps 118:19-20 : 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah. 20 This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter into it.
• Ps 66:13-16 : 13 I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you, 14 which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress. 15 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah. 16 Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
• Ps 19:1 : 1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
• Ezek 1:22-26 : 22 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above. 23 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies. 24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings. 25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings. 26 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
• Ezek 10:1 : 1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
• Gen 1:6-8 : 6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.