It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to the 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:
- 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;
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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
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- Ps 147:1Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
- Ps 107:1Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
- Eph 5:19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
- Ps 107:21–22Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
- Ps 135:3Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
- Ps 73:28But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
- Ps 33:1Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.
- Ps 107:8Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
- Dan 4:34–37At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
- Ps 54:6With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
- Dan 5:18You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Ps 107:15Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
- Isa 58:13–14“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
- Ps 52:9I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.
- Ps 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
- Ps 92:8But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.
- Rev 4:8–11The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
- Ps 82:6I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
- Heb 13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
- Acts 7:48–49However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
- Heb 4:9There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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