What does Psalms Chapter 148 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Opening wording and attribution remain source-grounded. Conditional statements, requests and future assertions retain their distinct times. Closing instructions and edition material remain distinct from added interpretation.

Chapter breakdown

Laudate Dominum de caelis introduces the call for every creature to praise, with Alleluia. Praise is called from heaven and high places, angels and hosts, sun and moon, stars and light, heavens of heavens and waters above heavens. The spoken word made and command created; establishment lasts forever and the decree shall not pass. Light is retained alongside stars without a physical model of the upper waters.

Earth’s dragons and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and ice, storm winds fulfilling the word, mountains and hills, fruitful trees and cedars, beasts and all cattle, serpents and feathered fowls are called. Dragons are not newly classified as sea animals, and serpents are not replaced by all reptiles.

Kings and peoples, princes and judges, young men and maidens, old people with younger are called to praise the name alone exalted. His praise is above heaven and earth; He exalted His people’s horn. A hymn is for saints and Israel’s children approaching Him; Alleluia closes. These invitations are not a reported universal assembly or a doctrine about nonrational worship.

The story inside

Opening: Opening wording and attribution remain source-grounded. Development: Conditional statements, requests and future assertions retain their distinct times. Conclusion: Closing instructions and edition material remain distinct from added interpretation.

Lessons worth keeping

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Opening wording and attribution remain source-grounded.
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Conditional statements, requests and future assertions retain their distinct times.
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Closing instructions and edition material remain distinct from added interpretation.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 67106–67107
Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high places.
Lines 67109–67109
Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts.
Lines 67117–67118
Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he commanded, and they were created.
Lines 67125–67125
Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:
Lines 67134–67135
Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the name of the Lord:
Lines 67139–67141
The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the children of Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia.