You are my God, and I will praise you! You are my God, and I will exalt you!
Parallel translations
- WEB You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
- KJV Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
- BSB You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.
- NKJV You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You.
- NASB You are my God, and I give thanks to You; You are my God, I exalt You.
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Quick answer
The psalmist confesses 'You are my God' and resolves to give thanks and exalt him. It matters because personal devotion responds to God's saving grace.
Overview
With heartfelt ownership, the worshiper claims Yahweh as his God and vows praise. Deliverance produces intimate, personal worship. This confession anticipates the believer's relationship with God through Christ, in whom we cry 'my God' with assurance and joy.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Isa 25:1Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
- Ps 146:2While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
- Exod 15:2Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Isa 25:9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
- Ps 145:1A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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