Psalms 33:3

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Sing a new song to him;play skillfully on the strings, with a joyful shout.

Hebrew Names Version
Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

King James Version
Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

English Standard Version
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

New Century Version
Sing a new song to him; play well and joyfully.

New English Translation
Sing to him a new song! Play skillfully as you shout out your praises to him!

Amplified Bible
Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully [on the strings] with a loud and joyful sound.

New American Standard Bible
Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy.

World English Bible
Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Sing vnto him a newe song: sing cheerefully with a loude voyce.

Legacy Standard Bible
Sing to Him a new song;Play skillfully with a loud shout.

Berean Standard Bible
Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully with a shout of joy.

Contemporary English Version
Sing a new song. Shout! Play beautiful music.

Complete Jewish Bible
Sing to him a new song, make music at your best among shouts of joy.

Darby Translation
Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud sound.

Easy-to-Read Version
Sing a new song to him. Play it well and sing it loud!

George Lamsa Translation
Sing to him a new song; play skilfully with a beautiful rhythm.

Good News Translation
Sing a new song to him, play the harp with skill, and shout for joy!

Lexham English Bible
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with jubilant shout.

Literal Translation
Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully, with shouts of joy.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Singe him a new songe, yee synge lustely vnto him & with a good corage.

American Standard Version
Sing unto him a new song; Play skilfully with a loud noise.

Bible in Basic English
Make a new song to him; playing expertly with a loud noise.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Sing unto Him a new song; play skilfully amid shouts of joy.

King James Version (1611)
Sing vnto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sing vnto him a new song: do it cunningly, make a sweete noyse with your musicall instrumentes alowde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

English Revised Version
Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Synge ye to hym a newe song; seie ye wel salm to hym in criyng.

Update Bible Version
Sing to him a new song; Play skillfully with a loud noise.

Webster's Bible Translation
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

New King James Version
Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy.

New Living Translation
Sing a new song of praise to him; play skillfully on the harp, and sing with joy.

New Life Bible
Sing to Him a new song. Play well with loud sounds of joy.

New Revised Standard
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Sing unto him, a song that is new, With skill, sweep the strings, with loud noise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(32-3) Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.

Revised Standard Version
Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

Young's Literal Translation
Sing ye to Him a new song, Play skilfully with shouting.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy.

Contextual Overview

¹Good people, cheer God ! Right-living people sound best when praising. Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs! Play his praise on a grand piano! Invent your own new song to him; give him a trumpet fanfare. ⁴For God 's Word is solid to the core; everything he makes is sound inside and out. He loves it when everything fits, when his world is in plumb-line true. Earth is drenched in God 's affectionate satisfaction. ⁶The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg. ⁸Earth-creatures, bow before God ; world-dwellers—down on your knees! Here's why: he spoke and there it was, in place the moment he said so. ¹⁰ God takes the wind out of Babel pretense, he shoots down the world's power-schemes. God 's plan for the world stands up, all his designs are made to last. Blessed is the country with God for God; blessed are the people he's put in his will.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a new: Psalms 96:1, Psalms 98:1, Psalms 144:9, Psalms 149:1, Isaiah 42:10, Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16, Revelation 5:9, Revelation 14:3

play: 1 Chronicles 13:8, 1 Chronicles 15:22, 1 Chronicles 25:7, 2 Chronicles 34:12

Reciprocal: Psalms 40:3 - And he

Cross-References

Genesis 33:12
Then Esau said, "Let's start out on our way; I'll take the lead."

Genesis 42:6
Joseph was running the country; he was the one who gave out rations to all the people. When Joseph's brothers arrived, they treated him with honor, bowing to him. Joseph recognized them immediately, but treated them as strangers and spoke roughly to them. He said, "Where do you come from?" "From Canaan," they said. "We've come to buy food."

Genesis 43:26
When Joseph got home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought and bowed respectfully before him.

Ecclesiastes 10:4
If a ruler loses his temper against you, don't panic; A calm disposition quiets intemperate rage.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Sing unto him a new song,.... One newly composed on account of recent mercies received; and as the mercies of God are new every morning, there ought to be a daily song of praise to him; and so a new song is a continual song, as Christ is called the "new and living way",

Hebrews 10:20; because he is the everliving way; or the constant and only one, which always was, is, and will be. Or it may denote some famous and excellent song, as a new name is an excellent name, an unknown and unspeakable one; see Revelation 2:17; compared with Revelation 14:2; or respect may be had to the New Testament dispensation, in which old things are passed away, and all things become new; a new covenant is exhibited, a new and living way opened, and new ordinances instituted, and at the end of it there will be new heavens and a new earth; and so here is a new song made mention of, as suited to it;

play skilfully with a loud voice: either with the quill upon the harp, and the instrument of ten strings; or with the fingers upon the psaltery, at the same time, vocally, and aloud, expressing the new song.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sing unto him a new song - A song specially composed for this occasion; expressive of the special feelings suggested by this occasion, or appropriate to this new manifestation of the divine goodness and mercy. Such occasions, exhibiting some new phase of the divine goodness, demanded new language appropriate to them. So now, new hymns of praise, and new tunes in music, are demanded to meet the ever-varying manifestations of the mercy of God; and as the church is extended in the world, its modes of praise must be adapted to the new state of things which will arise. Nothing could be more absurd than to attempt to restrict the church in its praises to the exact words which were used in the time of David, or to the music which was employed then. Compare the notes at Revelation 5:9. The expression “new song” occurs several times in the Psalms, showing that new hymns of praise were composed as adapted to some new manifestation of the goodness of God: Psalms 40:3; Psalms 96:1; Psalms 98:1; Psalms 144:9; Psalms 149:1. Compare also Isaiah 42:10.

Play skillfully with a loud noise - literally, “Do well to play;” or, “do well in playing.” That is, do the work well, or with all the skill of music. The word rendered “loud noise,” means properly “a shout of joy” or “rejoicing:” Job 8:21; 1 Samuel 4:5. It is especially applied to the sound or clangor of trumpets: Leviticus 25:9; Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 29:1. There is rather the idea of “rejoicing” than of “noise” in the word. The meaning is that the music should be such as would be expressive of the highest joy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 33:3. Sing unto him a new song — Do not wear out the old forms: fresh mercies call for new songs of praise and gratitude.

Play skilfully with a loud noise. — Let sense and sound accompany each other; let the style of the music be suited to the words. This skill is possessed by few singers. They can make a loud noise, but they cannot adapt sound to sense.