“Hallelujah!” has entered into English vocabulary and even non-religious people recognize it. It’s a way to celebrate and punctuate something. “Praise Yah!” (short for Yahweh) is what it literally means and is more specific. It points us to God, the one we celebrate and praise. Psalm 150 concludes the book of Psalms with six powerful verses that tells us where, why, how and who should praise God.
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We are finishing season three and Psalm 150 takes us sky-high with praise to God! As the last of the "Hallelujah" psalms, it begins and ends with the Hebrew expression Hallelu-Yah or "praise Yah".
God deserves all praise in all forms, so whether with percussion, strings or wind instruments, we lift up praise to God for his greatness and great works. Everything that has breath praises God!
Psalm 150 uses some form of the Hebrew verb "to praise" (hallal) 13 times in 6 verses. Besides the opening and closing Hallelu-Yah, there are a large number of hallelu-hu ("praise him") and one hallelu-El ("praise God", v. 1). The entire psalm is a doxology or short song of praise to God.
Raise up a shout of praise to God today and set an intention for how you will continue to use the Psalms to grow closer to God now that season three is over. We can't exhaust the riches in each part of scripture we cover, but you can go deeper into them on your own using our four step process. You can download the helpsheet that details and demonstrates the four step process we use on First Fifteen using Psalm 1.
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