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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 words of the hymn were initially written by St. Francis of Assisi [2] in 1225 in the Canticle of the Sun poem, which was based on Psalm 148. [3] The words were translated into English by William Draper, who at the time was rector of a Church of England parish church at Adel near Leeds. Draper paraphrased the words of the Canticle and set ...
Psalm 148 is a composition for voice and piano by Leonard Bernstein, a setting of Psalm 148 in English dated 1935. The art song is the composer's earliest surviving work, influenced by the music at the synagogue where he worshiped. He adapted the psalm text to metered poetry, and composed the work in a traditional fashion.
The psalms themselves are named from the Latin word laudate, or "praise ye", which begins psalms 148 and 150. At Lauds, according to the Roman Rite , they were sung together following the canticle under one antiphon and under one Gloria Patri until the reforms instituted by St. Pius X in 1911.
The term Hallel, without a qualifier, generally refers to Psalms 113-118, which are recited only on festivals; for this reason the Hallel of pesukei dezimra is also known as the daily Hallel. These psalms are recited because they are devoted entirely to the praise of God. [1] Originally, this was the only part of pesukei dezimra.
Often described as spiritual, meditative, raw, yearning, divine, longing, beautiful, transcendent and profound, the four-part "A Love Supreme" — broken down into “Acknowledgment ...
Psalm 146 is the first of five final concluding praise Psalms in the Book of Psalms. [4] These psalms are not attributed to David; in the Septuagint, Psalms 145 (this psalm) to 148 are given the title "of Haggai and Zechariah". [5] Psalms 146 and 147 are seen by some as twin Psalms. [6]
The following story is recorded in the 13th-century halakhic work Or Zarua, which attributes it to Ephraim of Bonn (a compiler of Jewish martyrologies, died ca. 1200): [5]. I found in a manuscript written by Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn that Rabbi Amnon of Mainz wrote Untanneh Tokef about the terrible event which befell him, and these are his words: "It happened to Rabbi Amnon of Mainz, who was the ...