661 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
661 Shout for joy to God, all the earth;
661 All together now - applause for God!
661 To the Chief Musician. A Song. A Psalm. Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
661 Shout joyful praises to God, all the earth!
811 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
811 Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
811 A song to our strong God! a shout to the God of Jacob!
811 To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob.
811 Sing praises to God, our strength. Sing to the God of Jacob.
(Read Psalm 81:1-7)
All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his excellences, and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption from sin and wrath. What God had done on Israel's behalf, was kept in remembrance by public solemnities. To make a deliverance appear more gracious, more glorious, it is good to observe all that makes the trouble we are delivered from appear more grievous. We ought never to forget the base and ruinous drudgery to which Satan, our oppressor, brought us. But when, in distress of conscience, we are led to cry for deliverance, the Lord answers our prayers, and sets us at liberty. Convictions of sin, and trials by affliction, prove his regard to his people. If the Jews, on their solemn feast-days, were thus to call to mind their redemption out of Egypt, much more ought we, on the Christian sabbath, to call to mind a more glorious redemption, wrought out for us by our Lord Jesus Christ, from worse bondage.
951 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
951 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
951 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
951 Come, let's shout praises to God, raise the roof for the Rock who saved us!
951 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
951 Come, let us sing to the Lord ! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
(Read Psalm 95:1-7)
Whenever we come into God's presence, we must come with thanksgiving. The Lord is to be praised; we do not want matter, it were well if we did not want a heart. How great is that God, whose the whole earth is, and the fulness thereof; who directs and disposes of all!, The Lord Jesus, whom we are here taught to praise, is a great God; the mighty God is one of his titles, and God over all, blessed for evermore. To him all power is given, both in heaven and earth. He is our God, and we should praise him. He is our Saviour, and the Author of our blessedness. The gospel church is his flock, Christ is the great and good Shepherd of believers; he sought them when lost, and brought them to his fold.
6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn- shout for joy before the Lord, the King.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.
6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!
6 Feature trumpets and big trombones, Fill the air with praises to King God.
6 With trumpets and the sound of a horn; Shout joyfully before the Lord, the King.
6 with trumpets and the sound of the ram's horn. Make a joyful symphony before the Lord, the King!
(Read Psalm 98:4-9)
Let all the children of men rejoice in the setting up the kingdom of Christ, for all may benefit by it. The different orders of rational creatures in the universe, seem to be described in figurative language in the reign of the great Messiah. The kingdom of Christ will be a blessing to the whole creation. We expect his second coming to begin his glorious reign. Then shall heaven and earth rejoice, and the joy of the redeemed shall be full. But sin and its dreadful effects will not be utterly done away, till the Lord come to judge the world in righteousness. Seeing then that we look for such things, let us give diligence that we may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 66:1
Commentary on Psalm 66:1-7
(Read Psalm 66:1-7)
The holy church throughout all the world lifts up her voice, to laud that Name which is above every name, to make the praise of Jesus glorious, both by word and deed; that others may be led to glorify him also. But nothing can bring men to do this aright, unless his effectual grace create their hearts anew unto holiness; and in the redemption by the death of Christ, and the glorious deliverances it effects, are more wondrous works than Israel's deliverance from Egyptian bondage.