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Key: khaki:verbs, green:YHWH.
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BrLXX Ἀλληλούϊα· Ἀγγαίου καὶ Ζαχαρίου.
¶ Αἰνεῖτε τὸν Κύριον ὅτι ἀγαθὸν ψαλμός, τῷ Θεῷ ἡμῶν ἡδυνθείη αἴνεσις.
( Allaʸlouia; Angaiou kai Zaⱪariou.
¶ Aineite ton Kurion hoti agathon psalmos, tōi Theōi haʸmōn haʸduntheiaʸ ainesis. )

BrTr Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggæus and Zacharias.
¶ Praise ye the Lord: for psalmody is a good thing; let praise be sweetly sung to our God.

146:1 Or Hallelu YAH, meaning Praise the LORD; also in verse 10

OEB My soul, praise the Lord.

WEBBE Praise the LORD![fn]
⇔ Praise the LORD,[fn] my soul.

146:1 Hebrew: יה Yah

146:1 LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.

WMBB Praise the LORD!
⇔ Praise the LORD, my soul.

NET Praise the Lord!
⇔ Praise the Lord, O my soul!

LSV Praise YAH! Praise, O my soul, YHWH.

FBV Praise the Lord! With my whole being I praise the Lord!

T4T Praise Yahweh!
⇔ With my whole inner being I will praise Yahweh.

LEB No LEB PSA 146:1 verse available

BBE Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul.

Moff Hallelujah.
⇔ Praise the Eternal, O my soul!
⇔ As long as I live, I will praise the Eternal,
⇔ and sing to my God, as long as I survive.

JPS Hallelujah. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

ASV Praise ye Jehovah.
⇔ Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

DRA Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.

YLT Praise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah.

Drby Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

RV Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

Wbstr Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

KJB-1769 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.[fn]
(Praise ye/you_all the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. )

146.1 Praise ye…: Heb. Hallelujah

KJB-1611 ¶ [fn]Praise yee the LORD: prayse the LORD, O my soule.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes)

146:1 Heb. Halleluiah.

Bshps Prayse ye the Lord, prayse thou God O my soule, whylest I lyue I wyll prayse God: I wyll syng psalmes vnto my Lorde so long as I shalbe.
(Praise ye/you_all the Lord, praise thou/you God O my soul, whylest I live I will praise God: I will sing psalms unto my Lord so long as I shall be.)

Gnva Praise ye the Lord. Praise thou the Lord, O my soule.
(Praise ye/you_all the Lord. Praise thou/you the Lord, O my soul. )

Cvdl Prayse the LORDE (o my soule:) whyle I lyue wil I prayse the LORDE, yee as loge as I haue eny beynge, I wil synge prayses vnto my God.
(Praise the LORD (o my soul:) while I live will I praise the LORD, ye/you_all as loge as I have any beynge, I will sing praises unto my God.)

Wycl The `title of the hundrid and sixe and fourtithe salm. Alleluya. Herie ye the Lord, for the salm is good; heriyng be myrie, and fair to oure God.
(The `title of the hundred and six and fortythe psalm. Alleluya. Herie ye/you_all the Lord, for the psalm is good; heriyng be myrie, and fair to our God.)

Luth Halleluja! Lobe den HErr’s, meine SeeLE!
(Halleluya! Praise the LORD’s, my SeeLE!)

ClVg Alleluja. [Laudate Dominum, quoniam bonus est psalmus; Deo nostro sit jucunda, decoraque laudatio.[fn]
(Alleluya. [Laudate the_Master, quoniam bonus it_is psalmus; Deo nostro let_it_be yucunda, decoraque laudatio. )

146.1 Alleluia. AUG. Hic item ait de laude Dei, ubi propheta monet laudare colligentem Isræl. Laudate Dominum. CAS. Primo ostendit quos colligat, et quomodo. Secundo, post prædicta, quasi adhuc hærentes et dubios increpat, ostendens unde possint laudare Deum, scilicet si fuerint humiles, ibi, Præcinite

146.1 Alleluia. AUG. Hic item he_said about laude of_God, where a_prophet monet laudare colligentem Isræl. Laudate the_Master. CAS. Primo ostendit which colligat, and quomodo. Secundo, after prædicta, as_if adhuc hærentes and dubios increpat, ostendens whence possint laudare God, scilicet when/but_if fuerint humiles, ibi, Præcinite

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-poetry

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(Some words not found in UHB: praise Yah praise soul_of,my DOM YHWH )

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Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See also: figs-parallelism)

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

Praise Yahweh, my soul

(Some words not found in UHB: praise Yah praise soul_of,my DOM YHWH )

Here “soul” represents the writer’s inner being. The writer is commanding his inner being to praise Yahweh. If your readers would misunderstand this question, you can express it as a statement. Alternate translation: “I will praise Yahweh with all my soul” or “I give praise to Yahweh with all my life”

Parallel PSA 146:1

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