Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. Doxology, closing the first of the five books into which the Psalter is divided. Each of the five ends similarly, with a benediction in prose (Psalms 72:18-19; Psalms 89:52; Psalms 106:48; Psalms 150:6). At the end of the whole 150 psalms, he gives praise in thirteen Hallelujahs, as Rabbi Kimchi notes. It is possible that David himself so closed his collection, because he has nearly the same benediction, 1 Chronicles 16:36. If not, at least it was from him that Ezra (supposing that he arranged the Psalms as they now stand) drew the Doxology with which he closed the collection, just as the closing verses respecting Moses' death were appended subsequently to the Pentateuch of Moses.