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Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
Psalms 95:1 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
  • KJV O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
  • BSB Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
  • NASB Come, let’s sing for joy to the Lord, Let’s shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
  • NLT Come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.

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Quick answer

Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD, the rock of our salvation. We are summoned to enthusiastic, glad worship of our saving God.

Overview

This psalm opens with a hearty call to corporate praise, picturing God as the 'rock of our salvation,' firm and deliverer. Worship is to be joyful and vocal, springing from gratitude for God's saving strength. The New Testament uses this very psalm to urge believers today to worship and not harden their hearts (Hebrews 3:7-8; 1 Corinthians 10:4).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 34

  • 1 Cor 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
  • Ps 81:1For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
  • 2 Sam 22:47Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
  • Ps 150:6Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!
  • Ps 96:1–2Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
  • 1 Chr 16:9Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works.
  • Exod 15:21Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
  • Ps 47:6–7Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
  • Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
  • Rev 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
  • Ps 34:3Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.
  • Ps 100:1A Psalm of thanksgiving. Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
  • Ps 66:8Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,
  • Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
  • Ps 66:1–2For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm. Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
  • Eph 5:19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
  • Matt 21:9The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
  • Ezra 3:11–13They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.
  • Jer 33:11the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first,” says Yahweh.
  • Exod 15:1Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
  • Ps 117:1Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
  • Rev 19:6I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
  • Ps 136:1–3Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Ps 118:1Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
  • Ps 101:1A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
  • Isa 12:4–6In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
  • Ps 107:21Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
  • Ps 107:8Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
  • Ps 89:26He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
  • Ps 98:4–8Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
  • Ps 107:15Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
  • Ps 148:11–13kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges of the earth;
  • Rev 14:3They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

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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 95:1 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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