Psalm 148:4

Modern

Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.

Traditional

Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

Literal

Praise Him, O heavens of heavens, and waters that are above the heavens!

Latin

Laudate eum, cæli cælorum; et aquæ omnes quæ super cælos sunt,

Hebrew

English

Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.

This psalm calls for the whole created order to praise the Lord because he has honored his faithful people.

The Psalter ends with five hallelujah psalms, so named because each begins and ends with Praise the LORD! (Hebrew haleluyah).

1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
Nehemiah 9:6
You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.
Psalm 104:3
…laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Psalm 113:6
He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth.
Psalm 68:33
…to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.