Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
1 Praise the LORD! Praise, you servants of the LORD, Praise the name of the LORD.
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Hallelujah! You who serve God, praise God! Just to speak his name is praise!
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD, From this time forth and forevermore.
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Just to remember God is a blessing - now and tomorrow and always.
3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, The LORD's name is to be praised.
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From east to west, from dawn to dusk, keep lifting all your praises to God!
4 The LORD is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens.
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God is higher than anything and anyone, outshining everything you can see in the skies.
5 Who is like the LORD, our God, Who has his seat on high,
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Who can compare with God, our God, so majestically enthroned,
6 Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the eretz?
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Surveying his magnificent heavens and earth?
7 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
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He picks up the poor from out of the dirt, rescues the wretched who've been thrown out with the trash,
8 That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.
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Seats them among the honored guests, a place of honor among the brightest and best.
9 He settles the barren woman in her home, As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
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He gives childless couples a family, gives them joy as the parents of children. Hallelujah!
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