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Praise the LORD from the Heavens

Psalms 148:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.
KJV
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
WEB
Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens.
ASV
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.
LSV
Praise Him, heavens of heavens, || And you waters that are above the heavens.
YLT
Praise ye Him, heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.
DBY
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.
DRC
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens
GNV
Prayse ye him, heauens of heauens, and waters, that be aboue the heauens.
JPS
Praise Him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.
LXXE
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הַֽ֭לְלוּהוּ שְׁמֵ֣י הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וְ֝הַמַּ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֤ר ׀ מֵעַ֬ל הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
LXX-Br
Αἰνεῖτε αὐτόν οἱ οὐρανοὶ τῶν οὐρανῶν, καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ὑπεράνω τῶν οὐρανῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
  • Genesis 1:7So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
  • Deuteronomy 10:14Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
  • Nehemiah 9:6You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships…
  • Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
  • Psalms 68:33to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.
  • 2 Corinthians 12:2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.
  • Psalms 104:3laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
  • Psalms 113:6He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth.

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