Psa 150 | EE | STEP | Hallelujah! Shout, ‘You are the best’ to God the LORD. Do it in his temple. Do it in the skies.

Psalms 150

God is the Best! (The Last Hallelujah Psalm)

1 Hallelujah!

Shout, ‘You are the best’ to God the LORD.

Do it in his temple. Do it in the skies.

2 Shout, ‘You are the best’ to him because he is very strong.

Shout, ‘You are the best’ to him because he is very powerful.

3 Sing, ‘You are the best’ to him with music.

Use horns and harps and guitars. ^{▼▼150:3 The Jews did not have guitars. We translated ‘lyre’ as ‘guitar.’ Today we also have musical instruments that use electricity, such as the electric guitar. Strings now include the violin and the cello. Christians believe that we should use these new instruments to praise the LORD, as well as the old ones!}

4 Sing, ‘You are the best’ to him with music.

Use dancing and drums, strings and pipes.

5 Sing, ‘You are the best’ to him with music.

Use big and small cymbals.

6 Everything that is alive, shout to the LORD, ‘You are the best.’

Hallelujah! ^{▼▼150:6 The word ‘hallelu’ is in every verse of this psalm in the Hebrew Bible. We usually translate it ‘praise’, or ‘tell someone that they are great.’ But here we translated it ‘you are the best.’ Nobody is better than God. LORD is another name for God. It is his covenant name. A covenant is when two people, or groups of people, agree. Here, God agreed to love and send help to his people. His people agreed to love and obey God.
Many Christians still use the Hebrew word hallelujah:
‘HALEL’ means tell someone that they are great
‘U’ means all of you
‘JAH’ means a name for God that we translate ‘LORD’}