The Four Alleluias

The word first appears where the Psalter asks for sinners to be consumed out of the earth: "Bless thou Yahuah, O my soul. Praise ye Yah" (Ps 104:35). It then opens and closes the praise psalms sung at the feasts (Ps 113-118) and the final group that ends the book, "Let every thing that hath breath praise Yah" (Ps 146-150). Prayer rises before Him "as incense" (Ps 141:2). The book notes that "Alleluia," Praise Yahuah, appears in the New Testament only in Revelation 19 and reads it as heaven's accounting: each of the four answers a cry raised earlier in the book, as the saints under the altar who asked "How long?" now hear the judgment declared true and righteous.