New Revised Standard Version
It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High;

Contemporary English Version
It is wonderful to be grateful and to sing your praises, LORD Most High!

New American Bible
A psalm. A sabbath song. [2] It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praise to your name, Most High,

Douay-Rheims Bible
A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day. [2] It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.

A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day. [2] It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.

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3464. B.C. cir

540. Calmet and others suppose this Psalm to have been composed by some of the Levites during or near the close of the Babylonian captivity, acknowledging the mercy of God, and foreseeing the destruction of their enemies, and their own return to Jerusalem and the temple service.

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Isaiah 58:13,14 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word: . . .

Hebrews 4:9 There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.

Revelation 4:8-11 And the four living creatures had each of them six wings: and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. . . .

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Psalm 33:1 A psalm for David. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise becometh the upright.

Psalm 50:23 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.

Psalm 52:9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.

Psalm 54:6 I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:

Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Psalm 107:1,8,15,21,22 Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Psalm 135:3 Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing ye to his name, for it is sweet.

Psalm 147:1 Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.

Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord:

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

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Psalm 92:8 But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.

Psalm 82:6 I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Daniel 4:34-37 Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now praise, and magnify, and glorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his ways judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase. . . .

Daniel 5:18 O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor, thy father, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour.

Acts 7:48,49 Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the prophet saith: . . .