Halellujah!

Psalm 1 begins with the word, “Blessed.” Psalm 150 ends with an exuberant call to praise. Psalm 1 calls us to walk rightly before the Lord, and Psalm 150 shows us the sheer joy of praise that will result.

Psalm 150 is the most magnificent climax of worship. This is the ultimate and definitive call to everything that has breath: “PRAISE THE LORD!” Every created thing is called into a symphony of extravagant worship. Don’t allow your voice to be silent in this marvelous pageant of praise…don’t allow any creature in heaven or earth to “out-praise” any of us who have been redeemed!

The word, "halal" is found twice in every verse (12 times in this Psalm) and a glorious "HALLELUJAH" echoes from this Psalm throughout eternity!

“Halal” means to shine, boast, rave, celebrate and passionately worship God until you seem to be foolish. It is the most common word for praise used in the Psalms, and it is totally about passionate, expressive and prolific worship. This is the way the Lord sums up worship in the final Psalm. Passionate praise is actually commanded in this verse, as the word is in the imperative – meaning, Come on!! Praise God with me!! The Hebrew word calls for intentional, repeated and extended action with the praise – the strongest possible call for all nations, denominations and generations to be abandoned in exuberant praise.

1 Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary; 
praise him in his mighty heaven!


2 Praise him for his mighty works;
 praise his unequaled greatness!


3 Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn;
 praise him with the lyre and harp!


4 Praise him with the tambourine and dancing;
 praise him with strings and flutes!


5 Praise him with a clash of cymbals;
 praise him with loud clanging cymbals.


6 Let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord!
 Praise the Lord!

Spurgeon said of this psalm: “A Jewish Rabbi once remarked to me that the name Jehovah was not made up of letters, but only of a series of breathings. (The preacher here uttered the three syllables of the sacred name, Je-ho-vah, as though they were not composed of letters, but only a succession of breathings.) That is the nearest approach to the name of God, three breathings; therefore since all breath comes from him, and his very name can only be pronounced by breath, “Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” Hallelujah!”

Breath is the weakest thing we have,

but we can devote it to the highest service,

praising the Lord!

Wiersbe