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Psalm 148

Psa. 148:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Praise
halal (Hebrew #1984)
to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify
KJV usage: (make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(- ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine.
Pronounce: haw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
from the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, ye dragons
tanniyn (Hebrew #8577)
intensive from the same as 8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
KJV usage: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
Pronounce: tan-neen'
Origin: or tanniym (Ezek. 29:3) {tan-neem'}
k, and all deeps
thowm (Hebrew #8415)
(usually feminine) from 1949; an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water-supply)
KJV usage: deep (place), depth.
Pronounce: teh-home'
Origin: or thom {teh-home'}
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Isa. 43:20• 20The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. (Isa. 43:20)

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from the earth.
Psa. 148:1• 1Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights. (Psa. 148:1)
ye dragons.
Psa. 74:13‑14• 13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
 14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. (Psa. 74:13‑14)
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Psa. 104:25‑26• 25So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
 26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. (Psa. 104:25‑26)
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Gen. 1:21• 21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Gen. 1:21)
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Job 41:1‑34• 1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
 2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
 3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
 4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
 5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
 6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
 7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
 8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
 9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
 10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
 11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
 12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
 13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
 14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
 15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
 16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
 17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
 18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
 19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
 20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
 21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
 22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
 24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
 25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
 26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
 27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
 28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
 29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
 30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
 31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
 32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
 33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
 34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. (Job 41:1‑34)
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Isa. 27:1• 1In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)
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Isa. 43:20• 20The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. (Isa. 43:20)
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Isa. 51:9‑10• 9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
 10Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? (Isa. 51:9‑10)
• {v.7-10} The earth is called to praise the Lord. The sea-monsters and the deep to which they belong; the changing elements, lightning and hail, snow and vapors, and stormy wind fulfilling His Word; the solid mountains and the hills; the trees and animal creation, are all called to praise. (“Psalms 148” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Praise Jehovah from the earth, ye sea-monsters, and all deeps;