{"id":473,"date":"2010-12-19T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/12\/19\/praise-the-lord-2\/"},"modified":"2010-12-19T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T13:19:06","slug":"praise-the-lord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/12\/19\/praise-the-lord-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise the Lord!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading from the Psalms today, 146 &#8211; 148, part of the closing section of five Psalms dedicated to praise. Each one starts and ends with the exhortation to &#8220;Praise the LORD!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how each opens:<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 146:1,2<br \/>\nPraise the LORD! <br \/>\nPraise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. <\/p>\n<p>Psalm 147:1<br \/>\nPraise the LORD!\u00a0 <br \/>\nFor it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 148:1-4<br \/>\nPraise the LORD! <br \/>\nPraise the LORD from the heavens; praise Him in the heights!<br \/>\nPraise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His hosts!<br \/>\nPraise Him, sun and moon, praise Him, all you shining stars!<br \/>\nPraise Him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! <\/p>\n<p>I know what I&#8217;ll be doing today. How about you? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading from the Psalms today, 146 &#8211; 148, part of the closing section of five Psalms dedicated to praise. Each one starts and ends with the exhortation to &#8220;Praise the LORD! Here&#8217;s how each opens: Psalm 146:1,2 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/12\/19\/praise-the-lord-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ive-been-reading","category-psalms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-7D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}