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Psalm 150

Let Everything That Has Breath Praise the Lord

April 25, 2027

Christ Surrounded by Musician Angels, Hans Memling
Christ Surrounded by Musician Angels, Hans Memling, c. 1480Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
From a great organ-shutter ensemble made for a Spanish monastery and now in Antwerp: angels playing named, playable fifteenth-century instruments, each fingered correctly.The psalm tells the righteous to praise with the harp and the ten-stringed lute, and Memling painted the instruments accurately enough to rebuild them from.Hans MemlingA German-born painter (c. 1430-1494) who settled in Bruges and became its most sought-after master, with a calm, orderly manner that made him popular with foreign merchants.Royal Museum of Fine Arts, AntwerpAntwerp's great collection, strongest in the Flemish painters the city produced, reopened in 2022 after an eleven-year closure.Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelJohn 15:1-8Jn 15:1-8
Epistle1 Jn. 4:1-11 (12-21)1 Jn 4:1-11 (12-21)
Old TestamentActs 8:26-40
PsalterPs. 150Ps 150

Overview & Insights

“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!” (Psalm 150:6)

Psalm 150 is hymnic praise that acts as the doxology closing both Book V (other elements, 41:13; 72:18–19; 89:52; and 106:48, mark the end of Books I–IV) and the book of Psalms itself. Its verses consist entirely of imperative calls to praise.

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Commentary

Enduring Word: Psalm 150 Bible CommentaryEnduring Word: Ps 150 Bible Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Verse by verse study of the great doxology that closes the Psalter.

BibleHub: Psalm 150:1 CommentariesBibleHub: Ps 150:1 Commentaries BibleHub

Classic commentators gathered on the final let everything praise the Lord.

Background & Word Study

Sefaria: Psalms 150 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Ps 150 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with Jewish commentary tradition on the closing hallelujah psalm.

BibleHub: Psalm 150:1 InterlinearBibleHub: Ps 150:1 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew interlinear for halelu (praise) and the instruments of the psalm.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Church Fathers on Psalm 150Catena: Church Fathers on Ps 150 Catena

Patristic reading of the final psalm calling all breath to praise God.

Questions preachers ask

How does the Psalter end?

Psalm 150 closes the Psalms with an unbroken summons to praise God in his sanctuary and mighty heavens, with trumpet and harp, strings and pipe, and clashing cymbals, until every breathing thing joins the song.

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