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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst

Psalm 113:1

Gerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622 · Centraal Museum, Utrecht · Public domainGerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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Psalm 113:1 (WEB)

Praise the LORD! Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the LORD’s name.

Catechism · 1

  • §2143Article 2 · The Second CommandmentRead at vatican.va

    “He will not introduce it into his own speech except to bless, praise, and glorify it.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Zech 2:13; Ps 29:2; 96:2; 113:1-2.

Fathers and councils · 2

  • “1. …When ye hear sung in the Psalms, “Praise the Lord, ye children” (ver. 1); imagine not that that exhortation pertaineth not unto you, because having already passed the youth of the body, ye are either blooming in the prime of…” — the author cites it

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  • “In itself, indeed, the glory of the Father could neither be diminished nor enlarged; but without any doubt it was less among men when God was known only in Judea: and as yet children praised not the name of the Lord from the rising of the sun to its going down.” — editor's note: Ps. cxiii. 3, 1: pueri, from the LXX. παῖδες. The Hebrew is עַבְדֵי, “servants.”—Tr.

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