Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
Parallel translations
- WEB Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
- KJV Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
- BSB Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises!
- NASB Sing praises to God, sing praises; Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
- NLT Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises!
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Quick answer
The people are urged repeatedly to sing praises to God their King. It matters because God's enthronement calls forth wholehearted, joyful praise.
Overview
The fourfold call to 'sing praises' conveys the overflowing joy due to God the King. Worship is the fitting response to His reign. This anticipates the praise of the redeemed who, with understanding of His saving work in Christ, lift their voices to the King of all the earth.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Isa 12:4–6In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
- Matt 25:34Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
- Ps 117:1–2Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
- Ps 68:4Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!
- Matt 27:37They set up over his head the accusation against him written, “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
- Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
- Ps 145:1A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
- 1 Chr 16:9Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works.
- 1 Chr 29:20Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!” All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
- Ps 89:18For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- Ps 96:1–2Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
- Ps 149:1–3Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.
- Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Exod 15:21Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
- Eph 5:18–20Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
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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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