Psalm 148

Psalm 148
"Praise ye the Lord from the heavens"
Praise the Lord from the Heavens,
17th-century Russian ivory carving
Other name
  • Psalm 148 (Vulgate)
  • "Laudate Dominum de caelis"
LanguageHebrew (original)

Psalm 148 is the 148th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Praise ye the Lord from the heavens". In Latin, it is known as "Laudate Dominum de caelis".[1] The psalm is one of the Laudate psalms. Old Testament scholars have also classified it as a creation psalm and a wisdom psalm.[2][3]

The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies. It has often been set to music, including a four-part metered setting in German by Heinrich Schütz as part of the Becker Psalter, and Psalm 148, a setting for voice and piano of an English metered adaptation written and composed by Leonard Bernstein in 1935, his earliest surviving work.

  1. ^ Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 148 medievalist.net
  2. ^ Dunn, Stephen (2009). "Wisdom Editing in the Book of Psalms: Vocabulary, Themes, and Structures". Marquette University. p. 46. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  3. ^ Mays, James Luther (2011). Psalms. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-664-23439-3.