O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Parallel translations
- WEB Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.
- BSB Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
- NKJV Oh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
- NASB Exalt the Lord with me, And let’s exalt His name together.
- NLT Come, let us tell of the Lord’s greatness; let us exalt his name together.
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Quick answer
David invites others to magnify and exalt the Lord together with him.
Overview
Praise overflows into a summons for corporate worship, as David calls others to exalt God's name with him. Thanksgiving is meant to be shared in the community of faith. This communal exaltation anticipates the gathered church lifting up the name of Christ together.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 69:30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
- Luke 1:46And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
- Ps 148:1–14Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
- Rev 19:5–6And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
- Ps 40:16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
- Ps 66:8O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
- Ps 35:27Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
- Ps 103:20–22Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
- Ps 33:1–2Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
- Rev 14:7Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
- 2 Chr 29:30Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
- 1 Chr 29:20And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
- Acts 19:17And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
- Phil 1:20According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
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