and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.
Parallel translations
- WEB In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
- KJV And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
- NKJV And in that day you will say: “Praise the Lord, call upon His name; Declare His deeds among the peoples, Make mention that His name is exalted.
- NASB And on that day you will say, “Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name. Make known His deeds among the peoples; Make them remember that His name is exalted.”
- NLT In that wonderful day you will sing: “Thank the Lord! Praise his name! Tell the nations what he has done. Let them know how mighty he is!
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Quick answer
The saved are called to thank God and proclaim his deeds among the nations. Redemption overflows into mission and witness.
Overview
Gratitude for salvation cannot stay private; it moves believers to 'declare his doings among the peoples' and exalt his name. Worship and witness belong together. This anticipates the church's calling to proclaim God's saving works to all nations in the name of the exalted Christ (Matt. 28:19; Acts 1:8).
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Cross-references · 36
- Ps 105:1Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
- Ps 145:4–6One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- 1 Chr 29:11Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- Ps 117:1–2Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!
- John 17:26And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
- Phil 2:9–11Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
- Jer 51:9–10“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
- Ps 18:46The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may the God of my salvation be exalted—
- Ps 57:5Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.
- Jer 50:2“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
- Neh 9:5Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.
- Exod 15:2The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
- Exod 33:19“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- Ps 71:16–18I will enter in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.
- Ps 113:1–3Hallelujah! Give praise, O servants of the LORD; praise the name of the LORD.
- Ps 73:28But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.
- Ps 46:10“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- Ps 106:47–48Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.
- Ps 22:31They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn—all that He has done.
- Ps 40:5Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
- Isa 33:5The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
- Isa 25:1O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.
- Ps 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; proclaim His deeds among the nations.
- Ps 107:22Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.
- Ps 97:9For You, O LORD, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
- Ps 96:3Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.
- Ps 113:5Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?
- Ps 21:13Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.
- Exod 34:5–7And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
- Isa 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
- Isa 24:15Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
- Isa 12:1In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
- 1 Chr 16:8“Give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
- Ps 34:3Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
- Isa 66:19I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.
- Isa 2:17So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
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