Psalm 148:4
New International Version
Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies.

New Living Translation
Praise him, skies above! Praise him, vapors high above the clouds!

English Standard Version
Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!

Berean Standard Bible
Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.

King James Bible
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

New King James Version
Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!

New American Standard Bible
Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens!

NASB 1995
Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens!

NASB 1977
Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens!

Legacy Standard Bible
Praise Him, heavens of heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens!

Amplified Bible
Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters above the heavens!

Christian Standard Bible
Praise him, highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Praise Him, highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens.

American Standard Version
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Praise him, Heaven of Heavens; The waters higher than the Heavens!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens.

Contemporary English Version
Highest heavens, and the water above the highest heavens, come and offer praise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens

English Revised Version
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Praise him, you highest heaven and the water above the sky.

Good News Translation
Praise him, highest heavens, and the waters above the sky.

International Standard Version
Praise him, you heaven of heavens, and you waters above the heavens.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Praise Him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.

Literal Standard Version
Praise Him, heavens of heavens, | And you waters that are above the heavens.

Majority Standard Bible
Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.

New American Bible
Praise him, highest heavens, you waters above the heavens.

NET Bible
Praise him, O highest heaven, and you waters above the sky!

New Revised Standard Version
Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!

New Heart English Bible
Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.

Webster's Bible Translation
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.

World English Bible
Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens.

Young's Literal Translation
Praise ye Him, heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Praise the LORD From the Heavens!
3Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars. 4Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies. 5Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.…

Cross References
2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.

Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.

1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Nehemiah 9:6
You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

Psalm 68:33
to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.

Psalm 148:3
Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.


Treasury of Scripture

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters that be above the heavens.

heavens

Psalm 113:6
Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

2 Corinthians 12:2
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

waters

Psalm 104:3
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

Genesis 1:7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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Psalm 148
1. The psalmist exhorts the celestial
7. The terrestrial
11. And the rational creatures to praise God














(4) Heavens of heavens.--See Psalm 68:33, and references. Before passing downwards to the earth the invocation pauses to combine all the heights, which have been before addressed in the expression which denotes their position relatively to the earth; the highest heaven of all, and then the world of water which, in the Hebrew conception of the Cosmos, was supposed to be the foundation, while itself rests on the firmament or heavenly vault. (See Psalm 104:3.)

Verse 4. - Praise him, ye heavens of heavens; i.e. "ye highest heavens" (comp. Deuteronomy 10:14; 1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 68:33). And ye waters that be above the heavens (comp. Genesis 1:7). The clouds are probably intended.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Praise Him,
הַֽ֭לְלוּהוּ (hal·lū·hū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1984: To shine

O highest heavens,
שְׁמֵ֣י (šə·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

and you waters
וְ֝הַמַּ֗יִם (wə·ham·ma·yim)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

above
מֵעַ֬ל (mê·‘al)
Preposition-m
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the skies.
הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ (haš·šā·mā·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky


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