I will thank the Lord because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
- KJV I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
- BSB I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
- NKJV I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
- NASB ¶I will give thanks to the Lord according to His righteousness And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
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Quick answer
David ends by thanking and praising Yahweh for His righteousness. Vindication of the innocent moves the believer to worship the just Judge.
Overview
Having appealed to God as righteous Judge, David responds not with self-congratulation but with thanksgiving and song to 'Yahweh Most High.' The psalm of complaint resolves into praise, modeling how trust in God's justice produces worship even before deliverance is fully seen. The title 'Most High' (Elyon) exalts God above every threatening power.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 9:2I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
- Ps 98:2Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
- Ps 71:15–16My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
- Ps 111:3His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.
- Dan 4:34At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
- Ps 92:8But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.
- Ps 51:14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
- Acts 7:48However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
- Ps 35:28My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
- Ps 145:7They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.
- Ps 92:1A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;
- Dan 4:17The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
- Dan 4:25that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.
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