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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.
Psalms 71:22 · King James Version
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.
  • BSB 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.
  • 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 92:1–3IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:
  • 2 Kgs 19:22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ps 33:2Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
  • Ps 89:18For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
  • Hab 3:18–19Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
  • Isa 12:6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
  • Isa 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
  • Ps 98:3He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Isa 5:24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 60:9Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
  • Ps 150:3–5Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
  • Isa 43:3For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
  • Ps 144:9I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
  • Mic 7:20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
  • Ps 89:1I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
  • Isa 5:19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
  • Isa 30:11–12Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
  • Ps 138:2I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
  • Ps 56:4In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
  • Isa 5:16But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
  • Ps 78:41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ps 25:10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • Rom 15:8Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

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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