My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
- BSB My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your splendor all day long.
- NKJV Let my mouth be filled with Your praise And with Your glory all the day.
- NASB My mouth is filled with Your praise And with Your glory all day long.
- NLT That is why I can never stop praising you; I declare your glory all day long.
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Quick answer
The psalmist's mouth is filled with God's praise and honor all day long. It expresses a life saturated with continual worship.
Overview
The psalmist resolves that his speech will be full of God's praise and glory throughout the day. Worship is to be the constant occupation of the believer's lips. This continual praise flows from a heart that knows God's faithfulness and points to the life of thanksgiving that the gospel produces in those redeemed by Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 35:28My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
- Ps 146:2While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
- Ps 104:1Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.
- Ps 71:15My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
- Ps 71:24My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
- Ps 145:1–2A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
- Ps 63:5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
- Ps 51:14–15Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
- Ps 96:6Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
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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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