148Psalms 148

PSAL. CXLVIII. / 1 The Psalmist exhorteth the celestiall, 7 The terretriall, 11 And the rationall creatures to praise God.

1Praise yee the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heauens: praise him in the heights.Select Psalms 148:1

2Praise yee him all his Angels: praise ye him all his hosts.Select Psalms 148:2

3Praise ye him Sunne and Moone: praise him all ye starres of light.Select Psalms 148:3

4Praise him ye heauens of heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.Select Psalms 148:4

5Let them praise the Name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.Select Psalms 148:5

6Hee hath also stablished them for euer and euer: he hath made a decree which shall not passe.Select Psalms 148:6

7Praise the Lord from the earth: ye dragons and all deepes.Select Psalms 148:7

8Fire and haile, snow and vapour: stormie wind fulfilling his word.Select Psalms 148:8

9Mountaines and all hilles: fruitfull trees, and all cedars.Select Psalms 148:9

10Beastes and all cattell: creeping things, and flying foule.Select Psalms 148:10

11Kings of the earth, and all people: Princes, and all Iudges of the earth.Select Psalms 148:11

12Both young men and maidens: olde men and children.Select Psalms 148:12

13Let them praise the Name of the Lord, for his Name alone is excellent: his glory is aboue the earth and heauen.Select Psalms 148:13

14Hee also exalteth the horne of his people, the praise of all his Saints; euen of the children of Israel, a people neere vnto him. Praise ye the Lord.Select Psalms 148:14