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Psalm 150:6 KJV

Psalms · chapter 150 · verse 6

Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.Psalm 150:6 · King James Version

What Psalm 150:6 means

The last verse of the last psalm, and the only qualification is breathing. Nothing about skill, standing or understanding. After a hundred and fifty psalms of complaint, praise, confusion and repentance, the book ends by widening the invitation to everything alive.

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Psalm 150:6 in context

4Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

5Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

6Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

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Commentary

We are here, with the greatest earnestness imaginable, excited to praise God; if, as some suppose, this psalm was primarily intended for the Levites, to stir them up to do their office in the house of the Lord, as singers and players on instruments, yet we must take it as speaking to us, who are made to our God…

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6

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