Hallelujah!

 Hallelujah 

March 9, 2025

  Psalms 150 (CJB)

1 Halleluyah!

Praise God in his holy place!

Praise him in the heavenly dome of his power!

2 Praise him for his mighty deeds!

Praise him for his surpassing greatness!

3 Praise him with a blast on the shofar!

Praise him with lute and lyre!

4 Praise him with tambourines and dancing!

Praise him with flutes and strings!

5 Praise him with clanging cymbals!

Praise him with loud crashing cymbals!

6 Let everything that has breath praise ADONAI!

Halleluyah!

h1984b. הָלַל halal; a prim. root; to be boastful, to priase:--

h3050. יָהּ Yah; contr. from 3068; the name of the God of Israel:--

Spoken together, these words are Hallelujah, Praise the Lord!

Revelation 19:1-6 - The Fourfold Hallelujah (NASB)

1 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying,

“Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God; 2 BECAUSE HIS JUDGMENTS ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and HE HAS AVENGED THE BLOOD OF HIS BOND-SERVANTS ON HER.” 3 And a second time they said, “Hallelujah! HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER.” 4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!” 5 And a voice came from the throne, saying,

“Give praise to our God, all you His bond-servants, you who fear Him, the small and the great.” 6 Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying,

“Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.

We have been talking about the names of God, but another Hebrew word that has always intrigued me is Hallelujah. I have heard it said that that is one word that is most useful to missionaries because it is understood in almost every language of the world. In English, it can be translated as “Praise the Lord”, but if you shout “Hallelujah” everyone knows what you mean.

I think it is interesting that the book of Psalms ends with the great hallelujah. Every verse in that Psalm begins with Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. It is the summation of all the praise and worship of the Psalms, when all is said and done, the most important thing left is just to say “Hallelujah!”.

The New Testament also wraps up with a fourfold Hallelujah in Revelation 19. This is  brief look into heaven where we see the great multitude of saints and angels surrounding the thrown saying “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!”. It is our highest purpose and ultimate destiny to worship the Lord in heaven. “Hallelujah! For the Lord, our God, the Almighty reigns!”. “Let everything that has breath shout Halleluhjah!”