Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
Parallel translations
- KJV Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
- BSB Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully with a shout of joy.
- NKJV Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy.
- NASB Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy.
- NLT Sing a new song of praise to him; play skillfully on the harp, and sing with joy.
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Quick answer
God deserves a fresh, skillful, joyful new song from his people.
Overview
A 'new song' celebrates fresh mercies and ongoing reasons for praise, sung with both skill and exuberant joy. Worship is to be heartfelt yet excellent, neither careless nor lifeless. Scripture's new songs culminate in the song of redemption sung to Christ, who has accomplished the greatest deliverance of all.
Cross-references & the web
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- Eph 5:19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
- 1 Chr 25:7The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
- Ps 96:1Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
- Isa 42:10Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.
- 1 Chr 13:8David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
- Ps 98:1A Psalm. Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
- Ps 144:9I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
- Ps 40:3He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
- Ps 149:1Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.
- Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- 2 Chr 34:12The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments.
- 1 Chr 15:22Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.
- Rev 14:3They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
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