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Psalms 147:1
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Praise the Lord ! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.
Prayse ye the Lorde, for it is good to sing vnto our God: for it is a pleasant thing, and praise is comely.
Hallelujah!How good it is to sing to our God,for praise is pleasant and lovely.
Praise the LORD, For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
Praise the Lord because he is good. Sing praises to our God. It is good and pleasant to praise him.
Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our [gracious and majestic] God; Praise is becoming and appropriate.
Praise ye Jehovah; For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
Shout praises to the Lord ! Our God is kind, and it is right and good to sing praises to him.
Halleluyah! How good it is to sing praises to our God! How sweet, how fitting to praise him!
Hallelujah;
Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises vnto our God: for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
Praise ye the Lord: for psalmody is a good thing; let praise be sweetly sung to our God.
Praise ye the LORD; for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!
Praise Yah. For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; praise is fitting.
Praise Jehovah; for it is good to sing praise to our God; because praise is delightful and becoming.
Praise the Lord ! It is good to sing praises to our God; it is good and pleasant to praise him.
Praise the Lord , for it is good to sing praises to our God! Yes, praise is pleasant and appropriate!
Praise the Lord ! How good to sing praises to our God! How delightful and how fitting!
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God. For it is pleasing and praise is right.
Praise ye Yah, For it is good, to make melody to our GOD, - For it is delightful, seemly is praise!
(146-1) Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.
PRAISE the LORD; for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
Praise the Lord ! It is good to sing praise to our God; it is pleasant and right to praise him.
Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is beautiful.
Praise ye the Lord : for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
Prayse ye the Lorde, for it is a good thyng: sing psalmes vnto our Lorde, for it is a pleasaunt thing, [his] praise is to be desired.
Praise the Lord ! How good it is to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.
Praise ye Jah! for it is good. Sing psalms of our God; for it is pleasant: praise is comely.
The `title of the hundrid and sixe and fourtithe salm. Alleluya. Herie ye the Lord, for the salm is good; heriyng be myrie, and fair to oure God.
Praise ye Jah! For [it is] good to praise our God, For pleasant -- comely [is] praise.
Praise Yah, For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is seemly.
Praise you Yah; For it is good to praise our God; For it is pleasant to sing his praise.
Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises to our God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.
Give praise to the Lord; for it is good to make melody to our God; praise is pleasing and beautiful.
O prayse the LORDE, for it is a good thinge to synge prayses vnto or God: yee a ioyfull and pleasaunt thinge is it to be thankfull.
Hallelujah! It's a good thing to sing praise to our God; praise is beautiful, praise is fitting.
Praise the Lord ! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is becoming.
Praise Yah!For it is good to sing praises to our God;For it is pleasant and praise is becoming.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
for it is good: Psalms 63:3-5, Psalms 92:1, Psalms 135:3
and praise: Psalms 33:1, Psalms 42:4, Psalms 122:1-4, Revelation 5:9-14, Revelation 19:1-6
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:12 - And ye Psalms 50:14 - Offer Psalms 54:6 - for it Psalms 107:8 - praise Psalms 112:1 - Praise ye the Lord
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Praise ye the Lord,.... When he shall reign, as Kimchi connects this psalm with the preceding; the arguments used to engage men to this work are taken partly from the nature of it, as in the next clauses; and partly from what the Lord is and does, as in the following verses;
for [it is] good to sing praises unto our God; it being agreeably to his revealed will, what he enjoins, approves of, and accepts, and is profitable to his people, as well as makes his glory; see Psalms 92:1. Some render it, "because [he is] good", as in Psalms 106:1; but the accents, and what follows, will not admit of this sense;
for it [is] pleasant; to our God; with which the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, join this clause; the sacrifice of praise is more pleasing to the Lord than any ceremonial sacrifice, especially when offered from a grateful heart in the name of Christ, and with a view to his glory; and it is pleasant to saints themselves, when grace is in exercise, and they make melody in their hearts to the Lord;
[and] praise is comely: is due to the Lord, and becomes his people to give it to him; it is but their reasonable service, and a beautiful and lovely sight it is to see the chosen, redeemed, and called of the Lamb, harping with their harps, and singing the song of redeeming love.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Praise ye the Lord - Hallelu-jah. See Psalms 146:1.
For it is good to sing praises unto our God - See the notes at Psalms 92:1 : “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.”
For it is pleasant - See the notes at Psalms 135:3 : “Sing praises unto his name, for it is pleasant.” The Hebrew word is the same.
And praise is comely - Becoming; proper. See the notes at Psalms 33:1 : “praise is comely for the upright.” The Hebrew word is the same. If these psalms were composed for the rededication of the temple, it would not be unnatural that much of the language employed should be borrowed from earlier psalms with which the people were familiar.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM CXLVII
The psalmist praises God for his goodness to Jerusalem, 1-3;
shows his great mercy to them that trust in him, 4-6;
he extols him for his mercies, and providential kindness, 7-11;
for his defence of Jerusalem, 12-15;
For his wonders in the seasons, 16-18;
and his word unto Jacob, 19, 20.
NOTES ON PSALM CXLVII
This Psalm, which is without title in the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Vulgate, is attributed by the other Versions to Haggai and Zechariah. It was probably penned after the captivity, when the Jews were busily employed in rebuilding Jerusalem, as may be gathered from the second and thirteenth verses. It may be necessary to remark that all the Versions, except the Chaldee, divide this Psalm at the end of the eleventh verse, and begin a new Psalm at the twelfth. By this division the numbers of the Psalms agree in the Versions with the Hebrew; the former having been, till now, one behind.
Verse Psalms 147:1. Praise is comely. — It is decent, befitting, and proper that every intelligent creature should acknowledge the Supreme Being: and as he does nothing but good to the children of men, so they should speak good of his name.
