Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
Praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah! The exhortation is to all things in earth or in heaven. Should they not all declare the glory of him for whose glory they are, and were created? Jehovah, the one God, should be the one object of adoration. To give the least particle of his honour to another is shameful treason; to refuse to render it to him is heartless robbery.
The Psalm urges us to praise God everywhere: in His sanctuary where His grace concentrates, and in the firmament where His power displays itself. We must observe both the place from which praise arises and the God to whom it ascends.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 150:1-6
Praise ye the Lord,.... Or, "hallelujah"; which, in the Targum, Septuagint, and Vulgate Latin versions, is the title of the psalm; and expresses the subject of it, the praise of the Lord; praise God in his sanctuary; in the temple, the house of his sanctuary as the Targum and R Judah; or in heaven, as R.