The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
The Psalter's final five psalms are the sustained crescendo, the hallelujah section that the whole book has been building toward. Each of the five opens and closes with halelu Yah. The praise is imperative: commanded, corporate, comprehensive.
Psalm 146 grounds the praise in God's character: who made heaven and earth, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who feeds the hungry, who frees prisoners, who opens blind eyes, who lifts the bowed down, who loves the righteous, who keeps the sojourner, who upholds the widow and fatherless. The list reads like the agenda of Isaiah 61 and Luke 4: the work of the anointed one. Thread 3 is the LORD who reigns forever and from whose activity the Messianic agenda is drawn.
Psalm 150 is the finale: let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Everything. Not just Israel. Not just the faithful. Not just those who understand. Everything that breathes. The command has no qualifier. The scope is the scope of life itself.
Thread 7 is in the let everything: the invitation that has been running since Revelation 22:17's whosoever will, since Isaiah 55:1's hoy kol-tsame, since Numbers 21:8's whosoever looks, it reaches here its most comprehensive form. Every breathing thing is summoned into the praise. Thread 1 is in the whole final hallel: the God who has been reaching throughout all 150 psalms, through David's laments and Moses's wilderness meditation and the Passion Psalm and the ascent songs, is the God who is here praised without reservation by everything that lives.
Praise ye the LORD (hallelujah) five times in five psalms, each one a different angle on the same conclusion; the Psalter ends where all creation is heading: in unrestrained corporate praise of the God who deserves it.
הַלְלוּ יָהּ (halelu Yah): praise ye the LORD: halelu (praise, Piel imperative plural of halal, to praise, to shine, to boast; the Piel is intensive: praise intensively, praise with full force; halal in the Piel also means to act madly, foolishly, as in the 'praise' that looks like madness from the outside; Hallelujah is the most widely recognized Hebrew phrase in every human language); Yah (the short form of YHWH; the most intimate divine name)
threads t1 · t3 · t7 · see Revelation 19:1-6 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Revelation 22:17
