The Message Bible MSG
King James Version KJV
1 Hallelujah! You who serve God, praise God! Just to speak his name is praise!
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Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
2 Just to remember God is a blessing - now and tomorrow and always.
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Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
3 From east to west, from dawn to dusk, keep lifting all your praises to God!
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From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.
4 God is higher than anything and anyone, outshining everything you can see in the skies.
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The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
5 Who can compare with God, our God, so majestically enthroned,
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Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
6 Surveying his magnificent heavens and earth?
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Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
7 He picks up the poor from out of the dirt, rescues the wretched who've been thrown out with the trash,
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He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
8 Seats them among the honored guests, a place of honor among the brightest and best.
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That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
9 He gives childless couples a family, gives them joy as the parents of children. Hallelujah!
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He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
The King James Version is in the public domain.