Mazmur 18:3

18:3 I called ¹  to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, ² 

and I was delivered from my enemies.

Mazmur 66:2

66:2 Sing praises about the majesty of his reputation! ³ 

Give him the honor he deserves! ⁴ 

Mazmur 106:2

106:2 Who can adequately recount the Lord’s mighty acts,

or relate all his praiseworthy deeds? ⁵ 

Mazmur 148:1-4

Psalm 148 ⁶ 

148:1 Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord from the sky!

Praise him in the heavens!

148:2 Praise him, all his angels! ⁷ 

Praise him, all his heavenly assembly! ⁸ 

148:3 Praise him, O sun and moon!

Praise him, all you shiny stars! ⁹ 

148:4 Praise him, O highest heaven,

and you waters above the sky! ¹⁰ 

[18:3]  ¹ tn In this song of thanksgiving, where the psalmist recalls how the Lord delivered him, the prefixed verbal form is best understood as a preterite indicating past tense, not an imperfect.

[18:3]  ² tn Heb “worthy of praise, I cried out [to] the Lord.” Some take מְהֻלָּל (mÿhullal, “worthy of praise”) with what precedes and translate, “the praiseworthy one,” or “praiseworthy.” However, the various epithets in vv. 1-2 have the first person pronominal suffix, unlike מְהֻלָּל. If one follows the traditional verse division and takes מְהֻלָּל with what follows, it is best understood as substantival and as appositional to יְהוָה (yÿhvah): “[to the] praiseworthy one I cried out, [to the] Lord.”

[66:2]  ³ tn Heb “his name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.

[66:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “make honorable his praise.”

[106:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “[or] cause to be heard all his praise.”

[148:1]  ⁶ sn Psalm 148. The psalmist calls upon all creation to praise the Lord, for he is the creator and sovereign king of the world.

[148:2]  ⁷ tn Or “heavenly messengers.”

[148:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “all his host.”

[148:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “stars of light.”

[148:4]  ¹⁰ sn The “water” mentioned here corresponds to the “waters above” mentioned in Gen 1:7. See also Ps 104:3. For a discussion of the picture envisioned by the psalmist, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World, 47.