O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
Parallel translations
- WEB Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,
- BSB Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of His praise be heard.
- NKJV Oh, bless our God, you peoples! And make the voice of His praise to be heard,
- NASB ¶Bless our God, you peoples, And sound His praise abroad,
- NLT Let the whole world bless our God and loudly sing his praises.
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Quick answer
The peoples are called to bless God and make His praise heard aloud. It summons public, audible praise of God.
Overview
The psalmist invites all peoples to bless God and let the sound of His praise be heard. Worship is to be communal and openly declared. Such praise foreshadows the great chorus of the redeemed gathered from every people in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 98:4Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
- Ps 66:2Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
- Jer 33:11The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
- Ps 47:1O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
- Rev 19:1And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
- Rom 15:10–11And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
- 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.
- Deut 32:43Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
- Rev 5:11–14And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
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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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