one example. This Hebrew expression occurs twenty-three times in the book of Psalms and only at the beginning or ending of a poem.11 Hebrew הַלְלוּ־יָהּ is best understood as an opening and closing exclamation, as indicated by the exclamation point used in the NLT. Numerous modern translations, like the NIV and NLT, use a series of indentations to indicate the cola in a line. The first colon (colon A) will be on the left margin. The second colon (colon B) will always be differentiated by one indentation,