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Psalm 146:1

Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul.

1Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul.
2While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
3Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.
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Notice

The repeated command to praise turns inward with “my soul,” making the speaker a participant in the worship he urges.

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 103:22–104:1Praise the LORD, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise the LORD, my soul!Both verses move from a call to praise the LORD to the speaker addressing his own soul.
Psalm 62:5My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.Both speakers address their own souls concerning God, one urging praise and the other silence and expectation.
Revelation 19:1After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;Both passages voice praise to God, with Revelation naming salvation, power, and glory as belonging to him.
Psalm 103:1By David. Praise the LORD, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!Both speakers tell their own souls to praise the LORD; Psalm 103 expands that command to all within the speaker.
Psalm 148:1Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!Both verses repeat the command to praise the LORD, directing it toward the soul or the heavens.
Jeremiah 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the …Both speakers address their own souls, though Jeremiah speaks in anguish at war while the psalm commands praise.
Where this verse fits

Praise and worship. gratitude.

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Encouragement

The speaker includes himself in the command to praise. Your own voice belongs in worship too; YHWH is worthy of the praise you urge others to give.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).