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Let Every Thing That Hath Breath Praise the Lord

Psalms 102–103, Psalms 110, Psalms 116–119, Psalms 127–128, Psalms 135–139, Psalms 146–150

August 31, 2026, to September 6, 2026

These Psalms collectively celebrate God's eternal mercy, righteousness, and sovereignty, offering praise and thanksgiving for His creation, deliverance, and intimate knowledge of His people, while also expressing trust in His justice and longing for His presence and guidance.

Psalms 110

Enoch and the City of Zion: Can an Entire Community Ascend to Heaven?

David J. Larsen

BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 1 (2014)

One of the most significant additions to the book of Genesis in Joseph Smith’s inspired translation of the Bible is to the story of the prophet Enoch, who the biblical record briefly implies was taken up into heaven alive. In Joseph Smith’s rendering of the story, however, not only Enoch, as an individual, ascends into heaven, but also his entire community. This article explores the notion of communal ascent in ancient Jewish and Christian literature and seeks to find affinities with the story of Enoch’s Zion found in the LDS book of Moses. Ancient narratives such as the History of the Rechabites provide some interesting parallels, however the idea of a group ascending into heaven is more strikingly presented in texts that are arguably designed for ritual purposes, as we see with the biblical Epistle to the Hebrews and the Hodayot and Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice texts from among the Dead Sea Scrolls. We can see in these texts a pattern that entails an individual being taken up into

Psalms 137

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