IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY 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;
- BSB 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,
- 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 147:1Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
- Ps 107:1O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Eph 5:19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
- Ps 107:21–22Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
- Ps 135:3Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.
- Ps 73:28But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
- Ps 33:1Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
- Ps 107:8Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
- Dan 4:34–37And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
- Ps 54:6I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.
- Dan 5:18O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
- 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 107:15Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
- Isa 58:13–14If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
- Ps 52:9I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
- Ps 50:23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
- Ps 92:8But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
- Rev 4:8–11And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
- Ps 82:6I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
- Heb 13:15By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
- Acts 7:48–49Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
- Heb 4:9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
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