Verse 1

[For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song]. We give thanks unto thee, O God; We give thanks, for thy name is near: Men tell of thy wondrous works.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 145:18 : 18 Jehovah is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth.
  • Ps 76:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song]. In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel.
  • Ps 138:2 : 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, And give thanks unto thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
  • Jer 10:6 : 6 There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
  • Exod 23:21 : 21 Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth; 7 keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
  • Deut 4:7 : 7 For what great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon him?
  • Deut 4:33-34 : 33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  • Ps 44:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil]. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
  • Ps 57:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave]. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me; For my soul taketh refuge in thee: Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge, Until [these] calamities be overpast.
  • Ps 58:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam]. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?