Psalms 95:1
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
BSB
ASV
Oh come, let us sing unto Jehovah; Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
KJV
O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
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1 Corinthians 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
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Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in…
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
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Psalms 150:6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Hallelujah!
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My mouth will declare the praise of the LORD; let every creature bless His holy name forever and ever.
And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to…
Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!
All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD, and Your saints will bless You.
Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths,
By this he showed that the outward worship of God principally consisted in the sacrifice of praise, and not in dead ceremonies. He enjoins haste upon them; by which they might testify their alacrity in this service. For the Hebrew word qdm, kadam, in the second verse, which I have rendered, let us come before, etc., means to make haste.
O come, let us sing unto the Lord. Other nations sing unto their gods, let us sing unto Jehovah. We love him, we admire him, we reverence him, let us express our feelings with the choicest sounds, using our noblest faculty for its noblest end. It is well thus to urge others to magnify the Lord, but we must be careful to set a worthy example ourselves, so that we may be able not only to cry "Come", but also to add " let us sing", because we are singing ourselves.
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