While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Parallel translations
- WEB While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
- BSB I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
- NKJV While I live I will praise the Lord; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
- NASB I will praise the Lord while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
- NLT I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.
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Quick answer
The psalmist vows to praise God all his life long. Worship is to fill every moment of one's existence.
Overview
Praise is framed as a lifelong commitment, sung 'while I live' and 'as long as I exist.' This reflects a life wholly oriented toward God. Such devotion points forward to the eternal life in Christ, in which praise never ends (Revelation 22:3-5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 63:4Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
- Ps 104:33I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
- Ps 145:1–2I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
- Ps 71:14–15But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
- Rev 7:9–17After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
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