New Living Translation NLT
The Message Bible MSG
1 Praise the LORD ! Yes, give praise, O 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 now and forever.
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Just to remember God is a blessing - now and tomorrow and always.
3 Everywhere—from east to west— praise the name of the LORD .
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From east to west, from dawn to dusk, keep lifting all your praises to God!
4 For the LORD is high above the nations; his glory is higher than the heavens.
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God is higher than anything and anyone, outshining everything you can see in the skies.
5 Who can be compared with the LORD our God, who is enthroned on high?
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Who can compare with God, our God, so majestically enthroned,
6 He stoops to look down on heaven and on earth.
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Surveying his magnificent heavens and earth?
7 He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage dump.
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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 He sets them among princes, even the princes of his own people!
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Seats them among the honored guests, a place of honor among the brightest and best.
9 He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother. Praise the LORD !
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He gives childless couples a family, gives them joy as the parents of children. Hallelujah!