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Psalms 113:3
From where the sun rises to where it sets, the name of the LORD is praised.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the assembly in the Hallel (Psalms 113–118), a liturgical sequence used at Passover and Tabernacles. This verse sits between the temporal claim "now and forever" (v. 2) and the spatial claim "above the heavens" (v. 4), anchoring praise in the full sweep of the earth.
The words — מִזְרַח (mizrah, "rising") and מְבוֹא (mevo, "coming-in") form a fixed idiom meaning "from east to west," i.e., the entire inhabited world. The verb מְהֻלָּל (mehullal, "to be praised") is a passive participle: the name receives praise, not the reverse.
The thread — Malachi 1:11 reuses the same mizrah–mevo idiom to predict Yahweh's name being great among the nations. Psalms 86:9 and 18:3 echo the universal-praise motif without the geographic formula.
Why it lands — The verse asserts, not hopes, that Yahweh's name is already praised across the full span of the earth. A reader is asked to accept that scope as stated fact and sit inside it, not to generate a feeling of awe.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord’s name is to be praised.
Cross-references
- Malachi 1:11 For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Psalms 18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.
- Psalms 86:9 All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.
- Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
- Psalms 48:10 Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
- Isaiah 49:13 Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
- Psalms 72:11 May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.
- Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- Psalms 72:17 May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.
- Psalms 50:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.