sounding cymbals;[1] praise him with clanging cymbals.[2] Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord![3]
Blessed be the Lord forever. Amen, Amen. Blessed out of Zion be the Lord who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the Lord! Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone works wonders; blessed be his glorious name forever. May the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, Amen.[4]
I Chronicles 29:10-13
David blessed the Lord before all the assembly, and David said: Blessed art thou, O Lord, God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power, the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in heaven and on earth is thine; thine, O Lord, is the kingdom, and thou art supreme over all. Riches and honor come from thee; thou rulest over all; in thy hand are power and might, and it is in thy power to make all great and strong. Hence, our God, we ever thank thee and praise thy glorious name.
Nehemiah 9:6-11
Thou art the Lord, thou alone. Thou hast made the heavens and the heaven of heavens with all their host, the earth and all the things upon it, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; the host of the heavens worships thee. Thou art the Lord God, who didst choose Abram, and didst bring him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham. Thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst make a covenant with him[5] to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite—to give it to his descendants, and hast fulfilled thy words, for thou art righteous. Thou didst see the distress of our fathers in Egypt and hear their cry by the Red Sea; thou didst show signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his
- ↑ צלצלי שמע cymbals of soft sound, castanets or metal discs fixed to two fingers of the hand.
- ↑ צלצלי תרועה cymbals of loud sound, constructed of copper.
- ↑ כל הנשמה is repeated because this verse marks the end of the Book of Psalms.
- ↑ Psalms 89:53; 135:21; 72:18—19.
- ↑ וכרות is recited responsively on the occasion of a Brit Milah; hence it has been arranged as a new paragraph. וכרות is part of the preceding verse.
