Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
Parallel translations
- WEB Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
- 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 yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
- 1 Chr 25:7So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
- Ps 96:1O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
- Isa 42:10Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
- 1 Chr 13:8And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
- Ps 98:1O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
- Ps 144:9I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
- Ps 40:3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
- Ps 149:1Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
- Rev 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
- 2 Chr 34:12And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
- 1 Chr 15:22And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
- Rev 14:3And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
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