Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
- BSB Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
- NKJV Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
- NASB Let’s come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving, Let’s shout joyfully to Him in songs with instruments.
- NLT Let us come to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him.
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Quick answer
Let us come before God with thanksgiving and praise Him with songs. We approach God's presence with gratitude and joyful music.
Overview
The call to worship continues, emphasizing thanksgiving as the proper way to enter God's presence. Praise is both reverent approach and exuberant song. Through Christ, believers now draw near with confidence, offering a continual sacrifice of praise and thanks to God (Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 100:4).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 100:4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
- Eph 5:19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
- Jer 31:12–13Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
- Ps 105:2Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
- Mic 6:6Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
- Ps 100:2Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
- Ps 17:13Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
- Ps 7:7So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
- Jas 5:13Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
- Ps 81:2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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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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