A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,
Parallel translations
- WEB A 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;
- KJV IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:
- NKJV It is good to give thanks to the Lord, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;
- NASB It is good to give thanks to the Lord And to sing praises to Your name, Most High;
- NLT It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to the Most High.
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Quick answer
It is good and fitting to give thanks and sing praises to the LORD, the Most High. Worship is not merely commanded but is genuinely good for us.
Overview
Titled a song for the Sabbath, this psalm sets thanksgiving at the center of rest and worship. Calling praise 'a good thing' affirms that gratitude to God aligns us with reality and blesses the worshiper. Such praise anticipates the eternal rest and worship secured by Christ, our true Sabbath (Hebrews 4:9-10).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 22
- Ps 147:1Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!
- Ps 107:1Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
- Eph 5:19Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
- Ps 107:21–22Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Ps 135:3Hallelujah, for the LORD is good; sing praises to His name, for it is lovely.
- Ps 73:28But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.
- Ps 33:1Rejoice in the LORD, O righteous ones; it is fitting for the upright to praise Him.
- Ps 107:8Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Dan 4:34–37But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
- Ps 54:6Freely I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.
- Dan 5:18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
- 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 107:15Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Isa 58:13–14If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
- Ps 52:9I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name—for it is good—in the presence of Your saints.
- Ps 50:23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
- Ps 92:8But You, O LORD, are exalted forever!
- Rev 4:8–11And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
- Ps 82:6I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’
- Heb 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
- Acts 7:48–49However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
- Heb 4:9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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