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So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 71:22 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
  • KJV I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
  • NKJV Also with the lute I will praise You— And Your faithfulness, O my God! To You I will sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.
  • NASB ¶I will also praise You with a harp, And Your truth, my God; I will sing praises to You with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
  • NLT Then I will praise you with music on the harp, because you are faithful to your promises, O my God. I will sing praises to you with a lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

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Quick answer

The psalmist vows to praise God's faithfulness with the harp and lyre, worshiping the Holy One of Israel.

Overview

Confident of deliverance, he turns to thanksgiving expressed in music and song directed to God's faithfulness. Calling God the 'Holy One of Israel' joins God's holiness to his covenant commitment to his people. Such heartfelt, faithful praise foreshadows the worship of the redeemed who sing to the Lamb who has kept every promise (Revelation 5:9).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Ps 92:1–3A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,
  • 2 Kgs 19:22Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  • Ps 33:2Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
  • Ps 89:18Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
  • Hab 3:18–19yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
  • Isa 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
  • Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
  • Ps 98:3He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Isa 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 60:9Surely the islands will wait for Me, with the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you.
  • Ps 150:3–5Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.
  • Isa 43:3For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.
  • Ps 144:9I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
  • Mic 7:20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Ps 89:1A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
  • Isa 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
  • Isa 30:11–12Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
  • Ps 138:2I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
  • Ps 56:4In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
  • Isa 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
  • Ps 78:41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ps 25:10All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
  • Rom 15:8For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

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Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 71:22 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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